Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (REGISTRATION) (ELECTORS FOR LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES) (VOTERS FOR ELECTION COMMITTEE SUBSECTORS) (MEMBERS OF ELECTION COMMITTEE) REGULATION - SECT 32

Electoral Registration Officer to deliver copies of notices of objection, notices of claim and notices of appeal to Revising Officer

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

(1) The Electoral Registration Officer must deliver to the Revising  Officer,
in accordance with this section, a copy of each notice of  objection,
notice of claim or notice of appeal received by the Electoral 
Registration Officer. The copies of those notices may be delivered in one or
more batches as the Electoral Registration Officer considers appropriate.

(2) The copy of a notice of objection and notice of claim must be delivered-

   (a)  (Repealed L.N. 307 of 1999)

   (aa) (Repealed L.N. 200 of 2001)

   (ab) in the case of a notice received in respect of a functional 
        constituencies register or a subsector register compiled, or an
        omissions  list prepared in compiling a
        functional constituencies provisional  register or a
        subsector provisional register, for-

        (i)    a District Council election year, not later than 2 September in
               that year; or

        (ii)   a year which is not a District Council election year, not later
               than 2 July in that year; or (L.N. 255 of 2002)

   (ac) in the case of a notice received in respect of an Election 
        Committee register or an Election Committee omissions list, not later
        than the tenth day after the date of publication of the relevant
        Election  Committee provisional register. (L.N. 200 of 2001)

   (b)  (Repealed L.N. 255 of 2002)

(3) The copy of a notice of appeal must be delivered-

   (a)  in the case of a notice received by the Electoral Registration 
        Officer not later than 11 days before the polling date for the
        functional  constituency or subsector concerned, not later than 8 days
        before that polling date; or

   (b)  in the case of a notice received by the Electoral Registration 
        Officer after the deadline referred to in section 31A(2)(d)- (L.N. 255
        of 2002)

        (i)    if the first 2 September that follows the second day after the
               day on which the notice is so received falls in a
               District Council  election year, not later than that 2
               September; or

        (ii)   in any other case, not later than the first 2 July that follows
               the second day after the day on which the notice is so
               received. (L.N. 200 of 2001) (L.N. 200 of 2001; L.N. 255 of
               2002)