Tan Cheng Bock v AG [2017] SGCA 50 criteria, the method of establishing such eligibility and the potential need to reserve elections from time to time. (ii) Four of the terms were held by Presidents who held the office pursuant to an election by the citizens under previous iterations of the Constitution. The Constitution has been amended from time to time including with respect to the functions and powers of the President. However, President Ong, President Nathan and President Tan each held office pursuant to elections held under the framework of the Elected Presidency as it was prior to the 2016 Amendment, in terms of the eligibility criteria, the method or need to establish such eligibility and without any need to consider whether an election had to be reserved. (iii) President Wee, alone in this group, held the office pursuant to an election by Parliament, under an even earlier iteration of the Constitution than his successors. However, President Wee continued to hold the office after the Elected Presidency was introduced and a specific transitional provision, Art 163, was passed at that time that was of particular relevance and application to him alone. We examine the significance of Art 163 a little later. (c) Although we will develop the point further below, in our judgment, it cannot meaningfully be contended, as Mr Rajah seemed to do, that President Wee did not “hold” the office of President. On any basis he did. And even though it is true that the office changed quite dramatically in the midst of his last term, there is simply no doubt at all that he continued to hold the office with the enhanced powers and 39