Hong Kong Regulations

BOUNDARY AND ELECTION COMMISSION (REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS) (FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES AND ELECTION COMMITTEE CONSTITUENCY) REGULATION - SECT 22

Revised final register

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

(1) Where a notice is published in the Gazette notifying any change in the
membership of-

   (a)  a District Board; or

   (b)  the Urban Council or the Regional Council, the registration officer
        shall, if the circumstances so require, compile and publish, within
        one month of the publication of the relevant notice or such longer
        period as he considers appropriate-

        (i)    a revised final register in respect of the election committee
               constituency; and

        (ii)   a revised final register in respect of the Urban Council
               functional constituency or the Regional Council functional
               constituency, as the case may require, to include the
               particulars referred to in section 5 of a person who has become
               entitled to be registered in the constituency concerned due to
               such change in membership or to delete the entry relating to a
               person who has ceased to be an eligible person in respect of
               that constituency due to such change.

(2) A revised final register referred to-

   (a)  in subsection (1)(i) shall replace the existing final register

(as at the date such revised register is published) in respect of the election
committee constituency; and

   (b)  in subsection (1)(ii) shall replace the parts in the existing final
        register (as at the date such revised register is published)
        corresponding to the parts contained in such revised register, and any
        reference to the final register or existing final register in this
        Regulation shall be construed accordingly.

(3) In compiling a revised final register under this section the registration
officer shall comply with the requirements in section 5, applicable to the
register being compiled. (Enacted 1994)