Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS) (GEOGRAPHICAL CONSTITUENCIES)Who may lodge a notice of claim

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

(1) Any person-

   (a)  who has been determined by the Electoral Registration Officer under
        section 5(1)(b) to be not eligible to be registered;

   (b)  whose application for registration was not considered further by the
        Electoral Registration Officer under section 5(4); or

   (c)  who-

        (i)    has made an application for registration; and

        (ii)   is not a person described in paragraph (a) or (b), but whose
               name or identity document number is not recorded in the
               provisional  register, may make a claim that he or she is
               entitled to be registered as an elector.

(2) Any person whose name or identity document number is included in an
omissions list may make a claim that he or she is entitled to be registered in
the final register.

(3) Any person (other than a person referred to in subsection (2)) whose name
or identity document number is recorded in a part of a provisional register,
may make a claim that he or she is entitled to have his or her name and
relevant particulars recorded in a different part of that register.

(4) Any person whose request under section 11(1) to alter a particular in an
entry relating to that person has been refused by the
Electoral Registration Officer may make a claim to have that particular
altered as requested.

(5) Any person whose particulars in an entry have been altered by the
Electoral Registration Officer under section 11(3) may make a claim objecting
to the alteration.

(6) A claim under this section is to be made-

        (a)	by a notice in the specified form ("notice of claim"); and


   (b)  addressed to the Electoral Registration Officer.

(7) A notice of claim must be delivered by the claimant in person at the
office of the Electoral Registration Officer-

   (a)  not later than 21 February 1998 if the claim relates to the
        first provisional register; and

   (b)  in any other case, not later than 1 March of the year for which the
        final register is being compiled.

(8) If the Electoral Registration Officer receives a claim after the date
referred to in subsection (7)(a) or (b), as may be relevant, the
Electoral Registration Officer may, having regard to the nature of the claim,
treat it- (L.N. 574 of 1997)

   (a)  as a request for alteration of registered particulars relating to a
        person for the purpose of compiling the next provisional register and
        section 11(2), (4) and (5)(b) and (c) applies; or

   (b)  as a claim, for the purpose of compiling the final register for the
        year following that in which the claim is submitted, and such a claim
        must be referred to the Revising Officer.

(9) The Electoral Registration Officer may require any person who delivers a
notice of claim to identify himself or herself by such means as that Officer
considers appropriate.

(10) If a person, subsequent to making a claim referred to in subsection (8),
makes any further claim or application, the latest claim or application, as
the case may be, prevails.