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Requirements for a referendum to pass

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Mandatory referendum - qualified majority
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Constitution of the Republic of Singapore

(adopted in 9 August 1965, last amended 2010)

 

http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/text.jsp?file_id=188429#LinkTarget_8238

Part II

Amendment of Constitution

(2)  A Bill seeking to amend any provision in this Constitutionshall not be passed by Parliament unless it has been supported on Second andThird Readings by the votes of not less than two-thirds of the total number ofthe elected Members of Parliament referred to in Article 39 (1) (a).

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[…] shall not be passed by Parliament unless it has also beensupported at a national referendum by not less than two-thirds of the totalnumber of votes cast by the electors registered under the ParliamentaryElections Act (Cap. 218).

 

Part III

8.

—(1)  A Billfor making an amendment to this Part shall not be passed by Parliament unlessit has been supported, at a national referendum, by not less than two-thirds ofthe total number of votes cast by the electors registered under the ParliamentaryElections Act (Cap. 218)
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Two thirds of the votes cast are required
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