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As for Mr Andrew Kuan, the former Group Chief Financial Officer of
JTC, it was the Committee's assessment that the seniority and
responsibility of that position was not comparable to those needed
for the office either.
Andrew Kuan had taught me a lesson, I will never qualify for any
of our future presidential election.
As for Mr Andrew Kuan, the
former Group Chief Financial Officer of JTC,
the Committee assessed the seniority and responsibility of that
position as
being not comparable to those mentioned in the Constitution and he
therefore
could not have the experience and ability in administering and
managing
financial affairs as to effectively discharge the functions and
duties of the
office of President.
(2) A person shall be qualified to be elected as President if he
(a) is a citizen of Singapore;
(b) is not less than 45 years of age;
(c) possesses the qualifications specified in Article 44 (2) (c)
and (d);
(d) is not subject to any of the disqualifications specified in
Article 45;
(e) satisfies the Presidential Elections Committee that he is a
person of integrity, good character and reputation;
(f) is not a member of any political party on the date of his
nomination for election; and
(g) has for a period of not less than 3 years held office
Qualifications for membership of Parliament
44. (1) Members of Parliament shall be persons qualified for
election or for appointment in accordance with the provisions of
this Constitution and elected in the manner provided by or under
any law for the time being in force in Singapore or appointed in
accordance with the provisions of the Fourth Schedule.
(2) A person shall be qualified to be elected or appointed as a
Member of Parliament if
(a) he is a citizen of Singapore;
(b) he is of the age of 21 years or above on the day of
nomination;
(c) his name appears in a current register of electors;
(d) he is resident in Singapore at the date of his nomination for
election and has been so resident for periods amounting in the
aggregate to not less than 10 years prior to that date;
(e) he is able, with a degree of proficiency sufficient to enable
him to take an active part in the proceedings of Parliament, to
speak and, unless incapacitated by blindness or other physical
cause, to read and write at least one of the following languages,
that is to say, English, Malay, Mandarin and Tamil; and
(f) he is not disqualified from being a Member of Parliament under
Article 45.
(3) Any question whether any person possesses the qualifications
mentioned in clause (2) (e) shall be determined in such manner as
may be prescribed by or under any law for the time being in force
in Singapore or, in so far as not so prescribed, as may be provided
by order made by the President and published in the Gazette.
Disqualifications for membership of Parliament
45. (1) Subject to this Article, a person shall not be qualified
to be a Member of Parliament who
(a) is and has been found or declared to be of unsound mind;
(b) is an undischarged bankrupt;
(c) holds an office of profit;
(d) having been nominated for election to Parliament or the office
of President or having acted as election agent to a person so
nominated, has failed to lodge any return of election expenses
required by law within the time and in the manner so
required;
(e) has been convicted of an offence by a court of law in Singapore
or Malaysia and sentenced to imprisonment for a term of not less
than one year or to a fine of not less than $2,000 and has not
received a free pardon:
Provided that where the conviction is by a court of law in
Malaysia, the person shall not be so disqualified unless the
offence is also one which, had it been committed in Singapore,
would have been punishable by a court of law in Singapore;
(f) has voluntarily acquired the citizenship of, or exercised
rights of citizenship in, a foreign country or has made a
declaration of allegiance to a foreign country; or
(g) is disqualified under any law relating to offences in
connection with elections to Parliament or the office of President
by reason of having been convicted of such an offence or having in
proceedings relating to such an election been proved guilty of an
act constituting such an offence.
(2) The disqualification of a person under clause (1) (d) or (e)
may be removed by the President and shall, if not so removed, cease
at the end of 5 years beginning from the date on which the return
mentioned in clause (1) (d) was required to be lodged or, as the
case may be, the date on which the person convicted as mentioned in
clause (1) (e) was released from custody or the date on which the
fine mentioned in clause (1) (e) was imposed on such person; and a
person shall not be disqualified under clause (1) (f) by reason
only of anything done by him before he became a citizen of
Singapore.
(3) In clause (1) (f), foreign country does not include any part
of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland.
