Hong Kong Ordinances

VILLAGE REPRESENTATIVE ELECTION ORDINANCE - SECT 17

Electoral Registration Officer to compile and publish registers of electors

(1) The Electoral Registration Officer shall compile and publish in accordance
with the EAC Regulations-

   (a)  a provisional register of electors for a Village not later than 22
        April 2003 and not later than 10 September in each subsequent year;
        and

   (b)  a final register of electors for a Village not later than 3 June 2003
        and not later than 20 October in each subsequent year.

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

(3) A provisional register for a Village shall be based on the existing
final register for the Village that is in effect at the time when the
provisional register is compiled.

(4) In compiling a provisional register for a Village, the
Electoral Registration Officer shall-

   (a)  after scrutinizing the register on which the provisional  register is
        based, strike out the names and other relevant particulars of the
        persons whom the Electoral Registration Officer is satisfied on
        reasonable grounds as being no longer eligible to have their names
        included in the final register for the Village;

   (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 the
        persons who have made applications for registration since the date
        prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph by the EAC Regulations
        and who are eligible to have their names included in the
        final register for the Village.

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

   (a)  in the Gazette and in such other publications (if any) as are
        prescribed by the EAC Regulations;

   (b)  to the effect that the names and other relevant particulars of the
        persons who are no longer eligible to have their names included in the
        final register for the Village have been entered on an omissions list;
        and

   (c)  specifying the time and the place at which the omissions list may be
        inspected.

(6) The Electoral Registration Officer shall, for the period prescribed for
the purposes of this subsection by the EAC Regulations-

   (a)  keep at the Officer's office at least one copy of the omissions list;
        and

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

(7) Subsections (3), (4)(a) and (b), (5) and (6) do not apply in relation to
the compilation of the first provisional register for a Village.

(8) In this section, "village ordinary election date"
(鄉村一般選舉的日期), in relation to a Village, means the date
specified under section 20 for holding a village ordinary election for the
Village.

"village ordinary election date" (鄉村一般選舉的日期)