Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS) (LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL GEOGRAPHICAL CONSTITUENCIES) (DISTRICT COUNCIL CONSTITUENCIES) REGULATION - SECT 8

Electoral Registration Officer to determine whether persons registered in the existing final register are registered in the appropriate section and subsection

(1) The Electoral Registration Officer must, having regard to-

   (a)  the existing final register;

   (b)  any information obtained under section 6 or 7;

   (c)  where applicable, an order made under section 18(2) of the
        Legislative Council Ordinance ( Cap 542); or

   (d)  section 3(1) of the District Councils Ordinance ( Cap 547) or, where
        applicable, an order made under section 6(1) or 8(1) of that
        Ordinance, (L.N. 284 of 1999) determine, in relation to a person whose
        name or other personal particulars are recorded in the
        existing final register, the appropriate section, and the appropriate
        subsection under it, of the next provisional  register in which to
        register that person. When the section and the subsection are so
        determined, the Electoral Registration Officer must register the
        person in that section under that subsection, if that person is not
        already so registered.

(2) The Electoral Registration Officer must inform a person, in writing, of
the section, and the subsection under it, in which that person is registered
under subsection (1).

(3) If, having regard to information obtained under section 6 or 7, the
Electoral Registration Officer determines that a person referred to in
subsection (1) is not eligible to be registered in the next provisional 
register, that Officer must inform that person in writing, by registered post.
(L.N. 284 of 1999)