Hong Kong Ordinances

DISTRICT COUNCILS ORDINANCE - SECT 29

Who is entitled to vote at an election

Division 2-Who May Vote at an Election

(1) A person is entitled to vote at an election only if the person is an
elector.

(2) In the case of the first ordinary election, an elector is entitled to vote
only in the constituency allocated to the elector by the
Electoral Registration Officer under section 31.

(3) In any subsequent ordinary election a person is entitled to vote only in
the constituency (being a constituency declared under this Ordinance) for
which the person is registered as an elector in the existing final register.

(4) An elector is entitled to vote only once at an election.

(5) In the first ordinary election an elector may not be prevented from voting
in that election only because the elector's name should not have been included
in the existing final register or the register referred to in section 31.

(6) In any subsequent election, an elector may not be prevented from voting at
an election only because the elector's name should not have been included in
the existing final register.

(7) Subsection (5) or (6) does not-

   (a)  preclude the Court from making a determination under section  55 ; or

   (b)  affect the person's liability to be charged with, and convicted of, an
        offence relating to voting at the election concerned.