Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS) (LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL GEOGRAPHICAL CONSTITUENCIES) (DISTRICT COUNCIL CONSTITUENCIES) REGULATION - SECT 12

What is to be contained in provisional register

(Past version on 19/11/1999).

The provisional register is to consist of the following-

   (a)  subject to sections 9, 11 and 19(3) and (4), the names and
        principal residential address recorded in the existing final register;

   (b)  if the name and principal residential address of a person are
        corrected under section 15(8)(a), those particulars, as corrected;

   (c)  the names and principal residential address of persons whom the
        Electoral Registration Officer has determined to be eligible to be
        registered in the provisional register, on applications received by
        that Officer-

        (i)    in the case of the provisional register for 2003, during the
               period beginning on 17 March 2002 and ending on 16 July 2003;
               or (Repealed L.N. 284 of 1999. Added L.N. 254 of 2002)

(ia) (Repealed L.N. 254 of 2002)

        (ii)   in the case of any subsequent provisional register to be
               compiled for- (A) a District Council election year, during the
               period beginning on 17 May in the preceding year and ending on
               16 July in the current year; or (B) a year which is not a
               District Council election year- (I) during the period beginning
               on 17 July in the preceding year, if that preceding year is a
               District Council election year, and ending on 16 May in the
               current year; or (II) during the period beginning on 17 May in
               the preceding year, if that preceding year is not a
               District Council election year, and ending on 16 May in the
               current year. (L.N. 254 of 2002) (L.N. 284 of 1999)