Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS) (LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL GEOGRAPHICAL CONSTITUENCIES) (DISTRICT COUNCIL CONSTITUENCIES) REGULATION - SECT 11

Electoral Registration Officer to correct entries in existing final register in compiling next provisional register

(Past version on 19/11/1999).

(1) A person whose name or other personal particulars are recorded in the
existing final register may make a written request of the Electoral 
Registration Officer to alter the entry relating to him or her and supply
information as to how it should be altered. (L.N. 284 of 1999)

(2) If the Electoral Registration Officer-

   (a)  receives a request under subsection (1) during the relevant period
        specified in subsection (5); and

   (b)  is satisfied that the entry is incorrect and should be corrected, that
        Officer must, when compiling the next provisional register, record in
        the appropriate place in the register the personal particulars of the
        person corrected in accordance with the information supplied by him or
        her. If the Electoral Registration Officer is satisfied that the entry
        is correct, that Officer must not alter it.

(3) If it appears to the Electoral Registration Officer, from information
obtained during the relevant period specified in subsection

(5), as a result of an inquiry or otherwise, that a particular in an entry in
the existing final register is incorrect, that Officer may, when compiling the
next provisional register, record the corrected particular in the appropriate
place in the register.

(4) 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 alter an entry
when requested to do so under subsection (1), that Officer must notify the
person concerned, by registered post, of the decision.

(5) For the purposes of subsections (2) and (3), the relevant period is, in
relation to the compilation of-

   (a)  the provisional register for 2003, after 29 April 2002 but not later
        than 16 July 2003; or (Repealed L.N. 284 of 1999. Added L.N. 254 of
        2002)

   (b)  any subsequent provisional register for-

        (i)    a District Council election year, after 29 June in the
               preceding year but not later than 16 July in the current year;
               or

        (ii)   a year which is not a District Council election year- (A) after
               29 August in the preceding year, if that preceding year is a
               District Council election year, but not later than 16 May in
               the current year; or (B) after 29 June in the preceding year,
               if that preceding year is not a District Council election year,
               but not later than 16 May in the current year. (Repealed L.N.
               284 of 1999. Added L.N. 254 of 2002)

   (ba) (Repealed L.N. 254 of 2002)

   (c)  (Repealed L.N. 254 of 2002)