Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (REGISTRATION) (ELECTORS FOR LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES) (VOTERS FOR ELECTION COMMITTEE SUBSECTORS) (MEMBERS OF ELECTION COMMITTEE) REGULATION - SECT 26

Electoral Registration Officer to correct entries in existing final register in compiling next provisional register

(Past version on 28/02/2003).
(Past version on 05/10/2001).
(Past version on 10/12/1999).
(Past version on 12/11/1997).

(1) A person whose name and other particulars are recorded in the
existing final register may make a written request of the Electoral 
Registration Officer to alter the entry relating to that person and supply
information as to how it should be altered.

(2) If the Electoral Registration Officer-

   (a)  receives a request under subsection (1), during the relevant period
        specified in subsection (5); and

   (b)  is satisfied that the entry is incorrect and should be corrected, that
        Officer must, when compiling the next functional constituencies 
        provisional register, the next subsector provisional register or the
        next  Election Committee provisional register (as the case may be),
        record in the appropriate place in the register the particulars of the
        person corrected in accordance with the information supplied. If the
        Electoral  Registration Officer is satisfied that the entry is
        correct, that Officer must not alter it. (L.N. 200 of 2001)

(3) If it appears to the Electoral Registration Officer, from information
obtained during the relevant period specified in subsection

(5), as a result of an inquiry or otherwise, that a particular in an entry in
the existing final register is incorrect, that Officer may, when compiling the
next functional constituencies provisional register, the next
subsector provisional register or the next Election Committee 
provisional register (as the case may be), record the corrected particular in
the appropriate place in the register. (L.N. 200 of 2001)

(4) If the Electoral Registration Officer makes a correction under subsection
(2) or (3) that Officer must inform the person concerned of the correction in
writing. If the Electoral Registration Officer decides not to alter an entry
when requested to do so under subsection (1), that Officer must notify the
person concerned, by registered post, of the decision.

(5) For the purposes of subsections (2) and (3), the relevant period is, in
relation to the compilation of-

   (a)  (Repealed L.N. 112 of 2006)

   (b)  any functional constituencies provisional register or any
        subsector provisional register for- (L.N. 112 of 2006)

        (i)    a District Council election year, after 29 June in the
               preceding year but not later than 16 July in the current year;
               or

        (ii)   a year which is not a District Council election year- (A) after
               29 August in the preceding year, if that preceding year is a
               District Council election year, but not later than 16 May in
               the current year; or (B) after 29 June in the preceding year,
               if that preceding year is not a District Council election year,
               but not later than 16 May in the current year; or (Repealed
               L.N. 307 of 1999. Added L.N. 255 of 2002)

   (ba) (Repealed L.N. 200 of 2001)

   (c)  -(d) (Repealed L.N. 255 of 2002)

        (e)	an Election Committee provisional register ("the 
first-mentioned Election Committee provisional register")- (L.N. 255 of 2002)

        (i)    if an Election Committee provisional register has been
               published during the term of office of the Election Committee,
               after the seventh day after the date on which such a
               provisional register was last published but not later than the
               date on which the relevant vacancy declaration within the
               meaning of section 4(7) of the Schedule to the
               Chief Executive Election Ordinance ( Cap 569) was made in
               relation to the compilation of
               the first-mentioned Election Committee provisional  register;
               or

        (ii)   if no Election Committee provisional register has been
               published during the term of office of the Election Committee,
               not later than the date on which the relevant vacancy
               declaration within the meaning of section 4(7) of the Schedule
               to the Chief Executive Election Ordinance ( Cap 569) was made
               in relation to the compilation of the first-mentioned 
               Election Committee provisional register. (L.N. 200 of 2001;
               L.N. 255 of 2002; L.N. 112 of 2006)

(6) If the elector referred to in subsection (1) is a body, the request must
be signed on its behalf by the responsible person. The
Electoral Registration Officer may send any communication referred to in
subsection (4) to the responsible person. (L. N. 307 of 1999)