Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS) (LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL GEOGRAPHICAL CONSTITUENCIES) (DISTRICT COUNCIL CONSTITUENCIES) REGULATION - SECT 7

Electoral Registration Officer may make inquiries regarding persons registered in the existing final register

(Past version on 19/11/1999).

(1) In compiling a provisional register, the Electoral Registration  Officer
may, in accordance with this section, make inquiries that Officer considers
fit, to ascertain-

   (a)  whether a person whose name or other personal particulars are recorded
        in the existing final register- (L.N. 284 of 1999)

        (i)    is dead;

        (ii)   is not entitled to be registered under section 24(2) of the
               Legislative Council Ordinance ( Cap 542);

        (iii)  is not eligible to be registered under section 27, 28, 29 or 30
               of the Legislative Council Ordinance ( Cap 542); or

        (iv)   is disqualified from being registered as an elector under
               section 31 of the Legislative Council Ordinance ( Cap 542); or

   (b)  whether the address recorded in the existing final register against a
        person's name is no longer that person's principal residential 
        address.

(2) An inquiry must be made in writing. It must be sent by registered post
addressed to the person from whom it is made.

(3) The Electoral Registration Officer may make an inquiry from a person whose
name is recorded in an existing final register- (L.N. 254 of 2002)

   (a)  in relation to the compilation of a provisional register for a
        District Council election year, only on or before 30 June in that
        year; or

   (b)  in relation to the compilation of a provisional register for a year
        which is not a District Council election year, only on or before 30
        April in that year. (L.N. 284 of 1999; L.N. 254 of 2002)

(4) The Electoral Registration Officer may make an inquiry from any other
source that Officer considers appropriate, at any time.

(5) Section 6(5) and (6) applies to an inquiry made under this section and
information obtained under this section subject to necessary modifications.