Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS) (LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL GEOGRAPHICAL CONSTITUENCIES) (DISTRICT COUNCIL CONSTITUENCIES) REGULATION - SECT 20

Electoral Registration Officer to publish notice of final register and to make final register 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 final register compiled for a District Council 
        election year, not later than 25 September; or

   (b)  in the case of a final register compiled for a year which is not a
        District Council election year, not later than 25 July, 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. 284 of 1999; L.N. 254 of 2002)

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

   (a)  that a copy of the final register is available for public inspection
        during ordinary business hours; and

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

(3) The Electoral Registration Officer must make available for public
inspection, a copy of the final register 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 final  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. (L.N. 284 of 1999)

(5) The Electoral Registration Officer may require a person who wishes to
inspect a copy of the final 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)

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