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

(Past version on 19/11/1999).

(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 relevant period
        specified in subsection (9)(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 relevant date specified in subsection (9)(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(4) (Repealed L.N. 254 of 2002)

(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 relevant date specified in subsection

(9)(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- (L.N. 254 of 2002)

   (a)  on or before 16 July in the year following the year in which the
        request was made in relation to the existing final register for that
        following year, if that following year is a District Council election 
        year; or

   (b)  on or before 16 May in the year following the year in which the
        request was made in relation to the existing final register for that
        following year, if that following year is not a
        District Council election  year. (L.N. 254 of 2002)

(8) Where the Electoral Registration Officer decides not to make an alteration
requested by a person within the relevant period specified in subsection
(9)(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.

(9) For the purposes of-

   (a)  subsections (2) and (8), the relevant period is, in relation to the
        compilation of-

        (i)    a final register for a District Council election year, after 16
               July but not later than 29 August in that year; or

        (ii)   a final register for a year which is not a District Council 
               election year, after 16 May but not later than 29 June in that
               year; or

   (b)  subsections (3) and (6), the relevant date is, in relation to the
        compilation of-

        (i)    a final register for a District Council election year, 29
               August in that year; or

        (ii)   a final register for a year which is not a District Council 
               election year, 29 June in that year. (L.N. 254 of 2002) (L.N.
               284 of 1999; L.N. 254 of 2002)