Hong Kong Ordinances

DISTRICT COUNCILS ORDINANCE - SECT 75

Appointment of Returning Officers and assistants

(1) The Electoral Affairs Commission must appoint for each constituency a
Returning Officer and such number of Assistant Returning  Officers as appears
to the Commission to be necessary to enable an election to be held in the
constituency.

(2) A Returning Officer has such functions and duties as are conferred or
imposed on that Officer by or under this Ordinance.

(3) An Assistant Returning Officer may, with the authority of the
Returning Officer concerned, exercise and perform the functions and duties of
Returning Officer.

(4) The Electoral Affairs Commission must publish in the Gazette a notice of
the appointment of a Returning Officer and that Officer's address.

(5) The executive authorities of the Government must ensure that each
Returning Officer is provided with such staff as that Officer requires in
order to exercise and perform that Officer's functions and duties under this
Ordinance.

(6) Expenses properly incurred by a Returning Officer in the exercise or
performance of that Officer's functions or duties under this Ordinance or the
Electoral Affairs Commission Ordinance ( Cap 541) are a charge on, and are
payable from, the general revenue.