Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS) (GEOGRAPHICAL CONSTITUENCIES)Electoral Registration Officer to correct entries in a provisional register in compiling final register

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(1) A person whose name or identity document number is or is to be recorded in
a provisional register may make a written request of the
Electoral Registration Officer to make an alteration in relation to the
particulars recorded or to be recorded for him or her or the part in which
they are or are to be recorded and supply information regarding the requested
alteration. (L.N. 534 of 1997)

(2) If the Electoral Registration Officer-

   (a)  receives a request under subsection (1) during the relevant period
        specified in subsection (4)(a); and

   (b)  is satisfied that an alteration should be made, that Officer must,
        when compiling the next final register, record in the appropriate
        place in that register the personal particulars of the person
        corrected (if a correction is necessary) in accordance with the
        information supplied by him or her. If the
        Electoral Registration Officer is satisfied that an alteration is not
        necessary, that Officer must not make any. (L.N. 534 of 1997)

(3) If it appears to the Electoral Registration Officer, from information
obtained not later than the relevant date specified in subsection (4)(b), as a
result of an inquiry or otherwise, that a particular in an entry in a
provisional register is incorrect, that Officer may, when compiling the next
final register, record the corrected particular in the appropriate place in
that register.

(4) For the purposes of-

   (a)  subsection (2), the relevant period is, in relation to the compilation
        of-

        (i)    the final register for 1998, after 16 January 1998 but not
               later than 21 February 1998; and

        (ii)   any subsequent final register, after 16 January of the year for
               which the final register is being compiled and not later than 1
               March of the same year;

   (b)  subsection (3), the relevant date is, in relation to the compilation
        of-

        (i)    the final register for 1998, 21 February 1998; and

        (ii)   any subsequent final register, 1 March of the year for which
               the final register is compiled.

(5) If the Electoral Registration Officer makes a correction under subsection
(2) or (3), that Officer must inform the person concerned of the correction in
writing. If the Electoral Registration Officer decides not to make an
alteration when requested to do so under subsection (1), that Officer must
notify the person concerned, by registered post, of the decision. (L.N. 534 of
1997)

(6) Where a request under this section is received by the Electoral 
Registration Officer, in relation to the compilation of-

   (a)  the final register for 1998, after 21 February 1998; and

   (b)  any subsequent final register, after 1 March of the year for which the
        final register is being compiled, that Officer may consider it only
        for the purpose of compiling the next provisional register.

(7) Section 11(2) and (4) applies to a request considered by the
Electoral Registration Officer under subsection (6) as if the request was
received by that Officer on or before 16 January in the year following the
year in which the request was made in relation to the existing final  register
for that following year.

(8) Where the Electoral Registration Officer decides not to make an alteration
requested by a person within the relevant period specified in subsection
(4)(a), that Officer must refer the matter to the Revising  Officer. The
reference must be treated as a claim under section 15 made by the person
requesting the alteration.