Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS) (LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL GEOGRAPHICAL CONSTITUENCIES) (DISTRICT COUNCIL CONSTITUENCIES) REGULATION - SECT 13

Electoral Registration Officer to publish a notice that provisional register is available for public inspection

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

(1) Every year, not later than 15 April, the Electoral Registration  Officer
must publish in the Gazette and at least one Chinese language daily newspaper
and one English language daily newspaper, in circulation in Hong Kong, a
notice which complies with subsection (2).

(2) A notice under subsection (1) must specify-

   (a)  that a copy of the provisional register is available for public
        inspection during ordinary business hours during the period referred
        to in subsection (3); and

   (b)  the place or places at which a copy of the provisional register may be
        so inspected by the public.

(3) The Electoral Registration Officer must make available for public
inspection, a copy of the provisional register during the period beginning on
the date the notice under subsection (1) is published and ending on 29 April
of the same year and at the place or places specified in the notice during
ordinary business hours.

(4) The Electoral Registration Officer may make available for public
inspection, a copy of a specific section or subsection of the
provisional register 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.

(5) The Electoral Registration Officer may require a person who wishes to
inspect a copy of the provisional register or any section or subsection of it
to produce to that Officer his or her identity document and to complete a form
furnished by the Officer. (L.N. 284 of 1999)