Hong Kong Ordinances

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ORDINANCE - SECT 32

Electoral Registration Officer to compile and publish electoral registers

(Past version on 27/12/2002).
(Past version on 21/09/2001).
(Past version on 01/07/2000).
(Past version on 30/07/1999).
(Past version on 03/10/1997).

(1) The Electoral Registration Officer must-

   (a)  not later than 15 June in each year other than a year in which a
        District Council ordinary election is to be held, compile and publish
        in accordance with regulations in force under the Electoral Affairs 
        Commission Ordinance ( Cap 541)- (Amended 48 of 1999 s. 18; 33 of 2002
        s. 4)

        (i)    a provisional register of geographical constituencies; and

        (ii)   a provisional register of functional constituencies; and

   (b)  not later than 25 July in each year other than a year in which a
        District Council ordinary election is to be held, compile and publish
        in accordance with regulations in force under the Electoral Affairs 
        Commission Ordinance ( Cap 541)- (Amended 48 of 1999 s. 18; 33 of 2002
        s. 4)

        (i)    a final register of geographical constituencies; and

        (ii)   a final register of functional constituencies.

(1A) The Electoral Registration Officer must-

   (a)  not later than 15 August in each year in which a District 
        Council ordinary election is to be held, compile and publish in
        accordance with regulations in force under the
        Electoral Affairs Commission Ordinance ( Cap 541)-

        (i)    a provisional register of geographical constituencies; and

        (ii)   a provisional register of functional constituencies; and

   (b)  not later than 25 September in each year in which a District 
        Council ordinary election is to be held, compile and publish in
        accordance with regulations in force under the
        Electoral Affairs Commission Ordinance ( Cap 541)-

        (i)    a final register of geographical constituencies; and

        (ii)   a final register of functional constituencies. (Added 33 of
               2002 s. 4)

(2) (Repealed 21 of 2001 s. 64)

(3) The Electoral Registration Officer may amend a provisional or
final register so as to rectify any clerical or printing error or any
incorrect name, address or other personal particulars of a person who is
recorded in the register.

(4) In compiling a provisional register, the Electoral Registration  Officer
must-

   (a)  strike out the names and other relevant particulars of all those
        persons whom the Electoral Registration Officer is satisfied on
        reasonable grounds as being no longer eligible to have their names
        included in the register; and

   (b)  enter the names and other relevant particulars of those persons on an
        omissions list; and

   (c)  add to the register the names and other relevant particulars of those
        persons whose applications for registration have been received by the
        Electoral Registration Officer not later than the date prescribed for
        the purposes of this paragraph by regulations in force under the
        Electoral  Affairs Commission Ordinance ( Cap 541) and who are
        eligible to have their names included in the register. (Amended 25 of
        2003 s. 18)

(5) As soon as practicable after complying with subsection (4), the
Electoral Registration Officer must publish-

   (a)  in the Gazette; and

   (b)  in such other publications (if any) as are prescribed by regulations
        in force under the Electoral Affairs Commission Ordinance ( Cap  541),
        a notice to the effect that the names and other relevant particulars
        of persons who are no longer eligible to have their names included in
        the register have been entered on an omissions list and specifying the
        times and the place at which the omissions list may be inspected.

(6) The Electoral Registration Officer must, for the period prescribed for the
purposes of this subsection by regulations in force under the
Electoral Affairs Commission Ordinance ( Cap 541)-

   (a)  keep the omissions list at that Officer's office; and

   (b)  during the ordinary business hours of that office, make that list
        available for inspection by members of the public, free of charge.