Rahayu binte Mahzam ( Jawi: رحايو مهزم; born 1980) is a Singaporean politician who has been serving as Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Health and Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Law concurrently since 2022. A member of the governing

People's Action Party The People's Action Party (abbreviation: PAP) is a major conservative centre-right political party in Singapore and is one of the three contemporary political parties represented in Parliament, alongside the opposition Workers' Party (WP) and ...

(PAP), she has been the

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(MP) representing the

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division of Jurong GRC since 2015. A lawyer by profession, Rahayu specialises in civil litigation and family law. She made her political debut in the 2015 general election as part of a five-member PAP team contesting in Jurong GRC and won 79.3% of the vote.

Education

Rahayu studied at

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and

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before she went to the National University of Singapore's Faculty of Law, where she completed a

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in 2003 and was called to the Bar in 2004.

Career

Rahayu joined Heng, Leong & Srinivasan LLC as a partner in January 2008, specialising in civil litigation and family law. In 2013, she left practice and served as Deputy Registrar at the Syariah Court of Singapore before returning to practice in August 2015. She is also an Associate Mediator accredited by the

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Political career

Rahayu was announced as a

(PAP) candidate on 20 August 2015 to join the five-member PAP team contesting in Jurong GRC during the 2015 general election. After the PAP team won with 79.29% of the vote against SingFirst, Rahayu became a

representing the

ward of Jurong GRC. In 2017, she was part of the taskforce set up to implement tighter regulations on formula milk manufacturers. During 2020 general election, Rahayu joined the five-member PAP team contesting in Jurong GRC again and they won with 74.62% of the vote against

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. Rahayu thus retained her parliamentary seat in Bukit Batok East and was appointed Parliamentary Secretary on 1 September 2020 at the Ministry of Health. On 15 May 2021, she received an additional appointment as Parliamentary Secretary at the

Ministry of Communications and Information The Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI; ms, Kementerian Perhubungan dan Penerangan; zh, 通讯及新闻部; ta, தொடர்பு, தகவல் அமைச்சு) is a ministry of the Government of Singapore respo ...

. Rahayu was promoted Senior Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Health on 13 June 2022 with the Ministry of Law added to the portfolio, and relinquished the Communications and Information portfolio.

Personal life

Rahayu is the eldest of three children and her parents were a security officer and a civil servant. Rahayu is married to a civil servant and has a son.

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Rahayu Mahzam
on Parliament of Singapore {{DEFAULTSORT:Rahayu Mahzam 1980 births Living people Members of the Parliament of Singapore National University of Singapore alumni People's Action Party politicians Singaporean people of Malay descent Singaporean women in politics Singaporean Muslims Raffles Junior College alumni Raffles Girls' Secondary School alumni