How is the national electoral register created?

Singapore, Elections Department of Singapore (ELD), Parliamentary Elections Act (Chapter 218) [Informal Consolidation – version in force from 8/6/2020], accessed 13 July 2020

Registration of electors

10.—(1) As soon as may be after the publication of any notification under section 8, the Registration Officer, with such assistance as he may require from the Commissioner of National Registration, shall prepare for that year a separate register of electors for each electoral division and shall enter in the register the names of all persons who are qualified as electors under section 5 and are not disqualified by any of the provisions of section 6.

(1A) The Minister may, before a general election, require the Registration Officer to bring up-to-date any register prepared under subsection (1) in such manner and by reference to such year as the Minister may direct.

(2) For the purpose of satisfying himself as to the qualification of any elector, the Registration Officer may make such enquiry as he may consider necessary.

(3) On the completion of the register for any electoral division, the Registration Officer shall give notice in the Gazette that the register is completed and that the register, or a copy thereof, is open for inspection at all reasonable hours of the day at the office of the Registration Officer and at such other place or places in or near the electoral division and at such overseas registration centres as may be specified in the notice.

Singapore, Elections Department of Singapore (ELD), About Registers of Electors, accessed 13 July 2020

“The Registers of Electors are compiled from records of NRIC holders kept by the Commissioner of National Registration by applying the qualifying criteria as of a prescribed date in accordance with section 5 of the Parliamentary Elections Act (Cap. 218). The date that the current set of registers is based on (i.e. the cut-off date) is 1 Mar 2020.”