Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS) (LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL GEOGRAPHICAL CONSTITUENCIES) (DISTRICT COUNCIL CONSTITUENCIES) REGULATION - SECT 21

Electoral Registration Officer may make available extracts of register for purposes of an election

PART V

MISCELLANEOUS

(1) The Electoral Registration Officer may, any time after the publication of
a register, make available an extract from such published register for any
purpose related to an election to any person that Officer considers
appropriate. The Electoral Registration Officer may, before making available
an extract, arrange the entries in the extract in a form that Officer
considers appropriate for the purposes of this section.

(2) When the Electoral Registration Officer makes available an extract under
subsection (1), that Officer must specify the particular election for which it
may be used.

(3) A person to whom an extract is made available under this section must not,
in relation to that extract, do any act specified in section 22(3)(a), (c) or
(d) for a purpose other than a purpose related to the election for which it
may be used under subsection (2).

(4) In an extract made available under this section, the Electoral 
Registration Officer may include (by way of a note or other means that Officer
thinks fit)-

   (a)  any information referred to in section 3(5); or

   (b)  information as to whether any person whose particulars are included in
        that extract is entitled to vote at an election.

(5) In this section, "election" (選舉) means-

   (a)  a general election or by-election within the meaning of section 3(1)
        of the Legislative Council Ordinance ( Cap 542);

   (b)  an ordinary election or by-election within the meaning of section 2 of
        the District Councils Ordinance ( Cap 547). (L.N. 284 of 1999)

"election" (選舉)