who they are nominated three of them can be appointed for a 1-year
term, 3 more for a 2-year term, and the remaining 3 for a 3-year term.
(i) Any election at which less than 200 valil votes are cast
shall be void. If any election is void the Governor may in his
discretion either order another election to be held or he may fill
the vacency or vacancies by nomination.
(j) We have also considered another well-known method of
reserving seats for representation of minorities whereby a number of
seats are reserved to be filled by direct election, not nomination.
In this system, ell cančidates for a reserved scat must be eligible
members of the minority section for which the sent is reserved;
all registered voters on vote for any of such candidatus.
prefer the systom we have recommended above to this system.
We recommend that the qualifications for the office of
Commissioner should be:
3.
The candidate (a) must be of full age
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and
(b) must be able to speak, read and write
English
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(c) must be a British subject or British
protected subject
(d) must have resided in Singapore for a
total period of at least three years of which at least six months must be within the period of twelve months immediately prior to the date of his registration as a Municipal Voter
(e) must be registered as a Municipal Voter.
He must have one of the following property qualifications
(i) He must be the owner of immovable property within the
Municipality of Singapore having an assessed annual value of not less then $720.00,
or
(ii) He must be the occupier of any praises within the Municipality
let separately of en assessed ornuel value of not less than $720.00
Provided always that where two or more persons or a partnership firm
are owners or occupiers of qualifying property the annual veluc at
which such qualifying property is assessed shall for the purpose of
this section be deemed to be divided in the proportion of their
several shares in that qualifying property or in the partnership and
each such owner or occurier or partner shall bo doomed to be an owner