Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS) (LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL GEOGRAPHICAL CONSTITUENCIES) (DISTRICT COUNCIL CONSTITUENCIES) REGULATION - SECT 17

Electoral Registration Officer to correct entries in a provisional register in compiling final register

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(1) A person whose name is or is to be recorded in a provisional  register may
make a written request of the Electoral Registration Officer to make an
alteration in relation to the particulars recorded or to be recorded for him
or her or the section or subsection in which they are or are to be recorded
and supply information regarding the requested alteration. (L.N. 534 of 1997)

(2) If the Electoral Registration Officer-

   (a)  receives a request under subsection (1) during the period specified in
        subsection (4)(a); and

   (b)  is satisfied that an alteration should be made, that Officer must,
        when compiling the next final register, record in the appropriate
        place in that register the personal particulars of the person
        corrected (if a correction is necessary) in accordance with the
        information supplied by him or her. If the
        Electoral Registration Officer is satisfied that an alteration is not
        necessary, that Officer must not make any. (L.N. 534 of 1997)

(3) If it appears to the Electoral Registration Officer, from information
obtained not later than the date specified in subsection

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

(4) For the purposes of-

   (a)  subsections (2) and (8), the period is, in relation to the compilation
        of any final register, after 16 March of the year for which the
        final register is being compiled and not later than 29 April of the
        same year; (L.N. 284 of 1999)

   (b)  subsections (3) and (6), the date is, in relation to the compilation
        of any final register, 29 April of the year for which the
        final register is compiled. (L.N. 284 of 1999)

(5) 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 make an
alteration when requested to do so under subsection (1), that Officer must
notify the person concerned, by registered post, of the decision. (L.N. 534 of
1997)

(6) Where a request under this section is received by the Electoral 
Registration Officer after the date specified in subsection (4)(b), that
Officer may consider it only for the purpose of compiling the next
provisional register.

(7) Section 11(2) and (4) applies to a request considered by the
Electoral Registration Officer under subsection (6) as if the request was
received by that Officer on or before 16 March in the year following the year
in which the request was made in relation to the existing final  register for
that following year.

(8) Where the Electoral Registration Officer decides not to make an alteration
requested by a person within the period specified in subsection (4)(a), that
Officer must refer the matter to the Revising  Officer. The reference must be
treated as a claim under section 15 made by the person requesting the
alteration. (L.N. 284 of 1999)