Hong Kong Regulations

BOUNDARY AND ELECTION COMMISSION (REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS) (FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES AND ELECTION COMMITTEE CONSTITUENCY) REGULATION - SECT 21

Publication and inspection of final register

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(1) Subject to section 22, before 8 August in each year, the registration
officer shall complete the compilation of the final register in respect of the
functional constituencies and that in respect of the election committee
constituency, and-

   (a)  publish, before that date, in the Gazette and in at least 1 English
        language daily newspaper and 1 Chinese language daily newspaper, each
        in circulation in Hong Kong, a notice or where appropriate more than 1
        notice, that a copy of each final register or a specified part of each

(where applicable) is available for inspection by the public during office
hours on any working day and specify in the relevant notice any address at
which a copy of the entire final register or the relevant part of it, as may
be appropriate, may be so inspected; and

   (b)  make available for inspection by the public a copy of each final
        register, as a whole or in parts at such address or addresses.

(2) The registration officer may, if he considers it appropriate, make
available for public inspection a copy of a specific part of a final register
at an address additional to any address referred to in subsection

(1) and at such hours and during such period as he thinks fit.

(3) Publication of a notice in accordance with subsection (1) shall be deemed
to be publication of a final register to which the notice relates.

(4) A copy of the final register in respect of the functional constituencies
and that in respect of the election committee constituency made available for
inspection under this section may be contained in one document.

(5) The registration officer may, at any time, arrange the entries in a final
register or any part of it in such form as he considers appropriate and make
available, in accordance with subsection (6), a copy of the final register or
any extract from it, so arranged, to any person he thinks fit, for any purpose
related to an election. (L.N. 267 of 1995)

(6) Where the registration officer makes available a copy of the final
register or an extract from it under subsection (5), he shall specify the
particular election in relation to which the copy of that register or the
extract from it, as may be appropriate, may be used. (L.N. 267 of 1995)

(7) Where a copy of the final register or an extract from it is made available
to a person under subsection (5), he shall not, in relation to the copy or
extract, do any act specified in section 23(3)(a), (c) or

   (d)  , for a purpose other than a purpose related to the particular
        election specified in relation to that copy or extract, as the case
        may be, under subsection (6). (L.N. 267 of 1995) (Enacted 1994)