Hong Kong Ordinances

VILLAGE REPRESENTATIVE ELECTION ORDINANCE - SECT 41

Who may be made respondent to election petition

(1) Any person whose election is questioned by an election petition and the
Returning Officer for the Village concerned may be made a respondent to the
petition.

(2) Two or more candidates at an election may be made respondents to the same
election petition and their cases may be tried at the same time, but for the
purposes of this Part, and in relation to any order for giving security for
costs, the petition is taken to be a separate election  petition against each
respondent.