Hong Kong Ordinances

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ORDINANCE - SECT 46

What is to happen if insufficient candidates are nominated

(Past version on 11/07/2003).
(Past version on 03/10/1997).

(1) If, after the close of nomination of candidates for election for a
constituency, no more candidates have been validly nominated than the number
of Members to be returned for the constituency, the Returning  Officer must,
in accordance with regulations in force under the Electoral 
Affairs Commission Ordinance ( Cap 541), publicly declare the candidate or
candidates to be duly elected as a Member or as Members.

(2) If, after the close of nomination of candidates for election for a
constituency, no candidates were validly nominated or the number validly
nominated was less than the number of Members to be returned for the
constituency, the Returning Officer must, by notice published in the Gazette,
declare the election to have failed or, as the case may be, to have failed to
the extent that the number of candidates validly nominated was less than the
number of Members to be returned. (Amended 25 of 2003 s. 28)