Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS) (LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL GEOGRAPHICAL CONSTITUENCIES) (DISTRICT COUNCIL CONSTITUENCIES) REGULATION - SECT 6

Electoral Registration Officer to have power to require information to prepare registers

(1) For the purpose of preparing a register, the Electoral 
Registration Officer may require a public authority to furnish such
information as that Officer may specify.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1), the Electoral Registration  Officer may
require a public authority to furnish the name, identity  document number, sex
and principal residential address of a person who appears to the
Electoral Registration Officer to be eligible to be registered as an elector
for a geographical constituency under section 24 of the
Legislative Council Ordinance ( Cap 542). (L.N. 284 of 1999)

(3) Subject to subsection (4), when the Electoral Registration  Officer makes
a requirement under this section, the public authority of whom the requirement
is made must furnish the required information within 30 days of the
requirement. (L.N. 284 of 1999)

(4) If the Electoral Registration Officer thinks it fit, that Officer may, in
a particular case, extend the period referred to in subsection (3). If the
period is so extended, the public authority concerned must furnish the
information within the extended period. (L.N. 284 of 1999)

(5) For the avoidance of doubt, it is declared that the Electoral 
Registration Officer may make a requirement under this section only for the
purpose of preparing a register.

(6) A person may use information obtained under this section only for the
purpose of preparing a register or in connection with an investigation or
proceedings relating to an offence under this Regulation.

(7) In this section-

"prepare" (擬備) means compile, revise, correct or publish;

"public authority" (公共主管當局) includes a public officer or a member
of a public body within the meaning of the Interpretation and General Clauses 
Ordinance ( Cap 1).

"prepare" (擬備)

"public authority" (公共主管當局)