RESIGNATION OF SPEAKER
Parliament of Singapore · 17 August 1966 · 1st Parliament
Official Report, 17 August 1966, Vol 25, Issue 4 · Open in the reader (summaries, search, filters)
The Clerk: I have to inform Honourable Members that I had on the 5th day of August, 1966, at 4.30 p.m., received a letter under the hand of Mr Arumugam Ponnu Rajah resigning his office as Speaker of this Parliament.
The office of Speaker is therefore vacant and under clause (1) of Article 24 of the Constitution, Honourable Members shall elect a person to fill that office.
Source: Singapore Parliament Official Report (Hansard) for 17 August 1966. Republished on SGParliament.