Hong Kong Ordinances

VILLAGE REPRESENTATIVE ELECTION ORDINANCE

- CHAPTER 576

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.      Short title
   2.      Interpretation
   3.      Map of Existing Village
   4.      Index of Villages for Electing Indigenous Inhabitant Representatives
   5.      Office of resident representative for Existing Village
   6.      Office of indigenous inhabitant representative for Indigenous Village
           or Composite Indigenous Village
   7.      How long a Village Representative holds office
   8.      Village Representative to accept office
   9.      When a Village Representative is disqualified from holding office
   10.     How a Village Representative resigns
   11.     When a vacancy occurs in office of village representative
   12.     Director to declare vacancy in office of village representative
   13.     Who is entitled to vote at an election
   14.     When an elector is disqualified from voting at an election
   15.     Who is eligible to be registered as an elector
   16.     When a person is disqualified from being registered as an elector
   17.     Electoral Registration Officer to compile and publish registers of
           electors
   18.     When final register takes effect
   19.     Right of appeal to Revising Officer against decisions of Electoral
           Registration Officer
   20.     Secretary to specify dates for village ordinary elections
   21.     Village by-election to be held to fill vacancy in office of village
           representative
   22.     Who is eligible to be nominated as a candidate
   23.     When a person is disqualified from being nominated as a candidate
           and from being elected as a Village Representative
   24.     What requirements are to be complied with by persons nominated as
           candidates
   25.     Number and qualifications of subscribers to a nomination form
   26.     Withdrawal of candidate's nomination
   27.     Who are validly nominated candidates
   28.     Death or disqualification of a validly nominated candidate before
           date of election
   29.     What is to happen if insufficient number of candidates is nominated
           for a Village
   30.     When election proceedings are terminated or when an election fails
   31.     System of voting and counting of votes
   32.     Consequences of non-compliance with requirements of this Ordinance
   33.     Misnomer or inaccuracy not to limit operation of election document
   34.     Election to be presumed valid
   35.     Election not to be questioned only because of defect in appointment
           of electoral officer
   36.     Returning Officer to publish result of election
   37.     Offences by electoral officers with respect to conduct of election
   38.     Elector not to be required to disclose how vote was cast
   39.     Election may be questioned only by election petition made on
           specified grounds
   40.     Who may lodge election petition
   41.     Who may be made respondent to election petition
   42.     Court to have jurisdiction to determine election petitions
   43.     Period within which election petition is to be lodged
   44.     Court may direct security to be given for costs
   45.     Court to determine election petition
   46.     What happens if election petition is withdrawn
   47.     When an election petition is terminated
   48.     When respondent can withdraw from election petition proceedings and
           be substituted
   49.     Acts of person not invalid if determined not duly elected
   50.     What is to happen if a Village Representative is determined not
           duly elected
   51.     Appointment of Electoral Registration Officer and assistants
   52.     Electoral Registration Officer may specify forms
   53.     Appointment of Revising Officer
   54.     Appointment of Returning Officers and assistants
   55.     Offence to obstruct or hinder electoral officer
   56.     Secretary may give directions as to performance of electoral
           officer's functions
   57.     Death or incapacity of an electoral officer not to terminate
           authority
   58.     Proceedings against persons on grounds of disqualification
   59.     Period within which complaint or information shall be laid
   60.     Constitution of a Rural Committee to be construed in accordance with
           this Part
   61.     Village Representative as a member of Rural Committee
   62.     Members and office holders of a Rural Committee
   63.     Term of office of an approved Village Representative
   64.     Elector for an Indigenous Village or a Composite Indigenous Village
           not to have status of indigenous inhabitant for the Village
   65.     Secretary may make regulations
   66.     Chief Justice may make rules
   67.     Secretary may amend Schedule 1, 2 or 3
   68.     Omitted as spent
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           SCHEDULE 4


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