Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS) (LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL GEOGRAPHICAL CONSTITUENCIES) (DISTRICT COUNCIL CONSTITUENCIES) REGULATION - SECT 10

Electoral Registration Officer to publish a notice that omissions list is available for public inspection

(Past version on 19/11/1999).

(1) As soon as practicable after the omissions list is prepared, the
Electoral Registration Officer must publish a notice which complies with
section 32(5) of the Legislative Council Ordinance ( Cap 542)- (L.N. 534 of
1997; L.N. 254 of 2002)

   (a)  in the Gazette; and

   (b)  in at least one Chinese language daily newspaper and one English
        language daily newspaper in circulation in Hong Kong.

(2) The period for which the omissions list is to be available for public
inspection at the Electoral Registration Officer's office during its ordinary
business hours, for the purposes of section 32(6) of the
Legislative Council Ordinance ( Cap 542), is- (L.N. 254 of 2002)

   (a)  in the case of an omissions list prepared in compiling a
        provisional register for a District Council election year, the period
        beginning on the date the notice under subsection (1) is published and
        ending on 29 August in the same year; or

   (b)  in the case of an omissions list prepared in compiling a
        provisional register for a year which is not a
        District Council election  year, the period beginning on the date the
        notice under subsection (1) is published and ending on 29 June in the
        same year. (L.N. 534 of 1997; L.N. 284 of 1999; L.N. 254 of 2002)

(3) The Electoral Registration Officer may make available for public
inspection, a copy of the omissions list or a specific part of it at a place
additional to a place specified in a notice published under this section, if
that Officer considers it appropriate to do so. The
Electoral Registration Officer may determine the period during which and the
times at which it may be so inspected.

(4) The Electoral Registration Officer may require a person who wishes to
inspect a copy of the omissions list or any part of it to produce to that
Officer his or her identity document and to complete a form furnished by the
Officer.