Hong Kong Regulations

BOUNDARY AND ELECTION COMMISSION (REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS) (FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES AND ELECTION COMMITTEE CONSTITUENCY) REGULATION - SECT 9

Application for registration in provisional register

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PART III APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION IN AND COMPILATION OF PROVISIONAL
REGISTER

(1) An application by a person for registration in a provisional register
shall be made to the registration officer.

(2) An application under this section shall be in the specified form and be
signed by the applicant and may be completed either in English or Chinese and
sent by post or delivered by hand to the registration officer.

(3) An application for registration in a provisional register compiled for a
particular year must be made so as to be received by the registration officer
on or before 1 June in that year.

(4) An application for registration in a provisional register received after 1
June in any year shall be treated as an application received on or before 1
June in the next following year for registration in the relevant provisional
register compiled for that following year.

(5) Where an officer of a trade union referred to in Note (7) or a
relevant person referred to in Note (8), who is registered in a functional
constituency-

   (a)  dies; or

   (b)  notifies the registration officer in writing that he wishes to have
        the entry in the register relating to him, and in respect of that
        functional constituency, to be removed, another person, being an
        officer of the trade union concerned or a relevant person in relation
        to the constituency concerned, may make an application, in the
        specified form, for registration in the place of the first-mentioned
        officer or relevant person. (Enacted 1994)