Hong Kong Regulations

BOUNDARY AND ELECTION COMMISSION (REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS) (GEOGRAPHICAL CONSTITUENCIES) REGULATION - SECT 16

Notice of claim

Caution: This is a past version. See the current version here.

(1) A person-

   (a)  who has made an application for registration under section 6 and whose
        identity card number or name does not appear in the provisional
        register to which the application relates; or

   (b)  in respect of whose application for registration the registration
        officer has made a determination under section 7(1)(b), or decided to
        take no further action under section 7(3), may make a claim that he is
        entitled to be registered as an elector. (L.N. 586 of 1994)

(2) Any person whose identity card number or name is included in a list of
proposed omissions may make a claim that he is entitled to be registered in
the final register. (L.N. 586 of 1994)

(3) Any person (not being a person referred to in subsection (2)) whose
particulars appear in any part of the provisional register or final register
may make a claim that he is entitled to have such particulars entered in a
part of such provisional register or final register, as the case may be, being
a part other than that in which they appear.

(4) Any person whose request under section 9(1) to alter any particular in an
entry relating to him in a register has been refused by the registration
officer under section 9(2) may make a claim to have such particular altered as
requested by him. (L.N. 586 of 1994)

(5) Any person whose particulars have been altered by the registration officer
under section 9(3) or 18(3) may make a claim objecting to such alteration.
(L.N. 586 of 1994)

(6) A claim under this section shall be made by lodging a notice
("notice of claim") in the specified form, addressed to the registration
officer, and the notice of claim shall be delivered by the claimant himself to
the registration officer on or before 5 July in the year for which the final
register is being compiled. (L.N. 586 of 1994)

(7) The registration officer may require any person who lodges a
notice of claim under this section to identify himself by such means as the
registration officer considers appropriate. (Enacted 1994)