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

(Past version on 19/11/1999).

(1) The Electoral Registration Officer must publish, every year- (L.N. 254 of
2002)

   (a)  in the case of a provisional register compiled for a District 
        Council election year, not later than 15 August; or

   (b)  in the case of a provisional register compiled for a year which is not
        a District Council election year, not later than 15 June, 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). (L.N. 254 of 2002)

(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 relevant period
        referred to in subsection (3); and (L.N. 254 of 2002)

   (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- (L.N. 254 of 2002)

   (a)  in the case of a provisional register compiled for a District 
        Council election year, during 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 a provisional register compiled for a year which is not
        a District Council election year, during the period beginning on the
        date the notice under subsection (1) is published and ending on 29
        June in the same year, at the place or places specified in the notice
        during ordinary business hours. (L.N. 254 of 2002)

(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.

(6) Publication of a notice under subsection (1) is to be treated as the
publication of the provisional register for the purposes of section
32(1)(a)(i) or (1A)(a)(i), as the case may be, of the Legislative Council 
Ordinance ( Cap 542). (L.N. 254 of 2002) (L.N. 284 of 1999)