Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (REGISTRATION) (ELECTORS FOR LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES) (VOTERS FOR ELECTION COMMITTEE SUBSECTORS) (MEMBERS OF ELECTION COMMITTEE) REGULATION - SECT 30

Person may object to registration of registered person in the register

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

PART VI

NOTICE OF OBJECTION, NOTICE OF CLAIM, NOTICE OF APPEAL AND CORRECTION OF
PROVISIONAL REGISTER (L.N. 200 of 2001)

(1) A person who considers-

   (a)  that a registered person is not eligible to be registered-

        (i)    as an elector, a voter or an authorized representative; or

        (ii)   in the part in which that person's personal particulars or
               relevant particulars as the case may be, are recorded; or

   (b)  that a person who has been registered, as a member of the
        Election Committee or as an authorized representative has been wrongly
        so registered, may object to the registration of that person in the
        relevant final
register by lodging a notice ("notice of objection") in accordance with
subsection (2).

(2) A notice of objection must be-

   (a)  in the specified form;

   (b)  addressed to the Electoral Registration Officer; and

   (c)  subject to subsection (4), delivered by the objector in person at the
        office of the Electoral Registration Officer-

        (i)    if the objection relates to a person registered in a
               functional  constituencies provisional register or a
               subsector provisional register compiled for- (A) a
               District Council election year, not later than 29 August in
               that year; or (B) a year which is not a
               District Council election year, not later than 29 June in that
               year; or (Repealed L.N. 307 of 1999. Added L.N. 255 of 2002)

(ia) (Repealed L.N. 200 of 2001)

(ib) (Repealed L.N. 255 of 2002)

        (ii)   if the objection relates to a person registered in an Election 
               Committee provisional register, not later than the seventh day
               after the date of publication of the relevant
               Election Committee provisional  register. (L.N. 255 of 2002)

(3) The Electoral Registration Officer may require any person who lodges a
notice of objection to identify himself or herself by such means as that
Officer considers appropriate. (L.N. 575 of 1997)

(4) If the person objecting to the registration under subsection

(1) is a body, the notice of objection can be signed on its behalf by a
responsible person. In such a case the notice of objection must be delivered
under subsection (2), by that person.

(5) In this section, "registered person" (已登記的人) means a person
whose personal particulars or relevant particulars are recorded in a
functional constituencies provisional register or a subsector provisional 
register. (L.N. 200 of 2001)

"registered person" (已登記的人)