Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (REGISTRATION) (ELECTORS FOR LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES) (VOTERS FOR ELECTION COMMITTEE SUBSECTORS) (MEMBERS OF ELECTION COMMITTEE) REGULATION - SECT 37

What is to be contained in an Election Committee interim register and an Election Committee final register

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

What is to be contained in an Election Committee interim register and an
Election Committee final register (L.N. 112 of 2006)

(1) An Election Committee interim register is to consist of the following-
(L.N. 112 of 2006)

   (a)  the specified particulars of persons who have been declared under
        section 7(8) of the Schedule to the Chief Executive Election 
        Ordinance ( Cap 569) to be members of the Election Committee;

   (b)  the specified particulars of persons who have been declared to be duly
        elected for a subsector for which an Election Committee subsector 
        election is required to be held under the Schedule to the
        Chief Executive  Election Ordinance ( Cap 569); and

   (c)  the specified particulars of persons registered as ex-officio  members
        under sections 2(8) and 41(3) of the Schedule to the Chief 
        Executive Election Ordinance ( Cap 569) other than those removed under
        section 41(2) of that Schedule. (L.N. 307 of 1999)

(1A) An Election Committee final register required to be compiled under
section 40(2) or (3) of the Schedule to the Chief Executive Election 
Ordinance ( Cap 569) is to consist of the following-

   (a)  subject to subsections (1C) and (1D)(a), the specified  particulars
        contained in the relevant Election Committee provisional  register, as
        corrected, where appropriate, under section 33 or 34;

   (b)  the specified particulars of any person whom the Revising  Officer has
        ruled to be entitled to be registered, on a claim made by that person;

   (c)  the additions, if any, under section 34(1)(b); and

   (d)  the specified particulars of the following persons, as may be
        applicable-

        (i)    persons who are nominees under section 7(2) of the Schedule to
               the Chief Executive Election Ordinance ( Cap 569) and who have
               been declared under section 7(8) of that Schedule to be members
               of the Election  Committee;

        (ii)   persons who have been declared to be duly elected as members of
               the Election Committee at the subsector by-election within the
               meaning of section 1 of that Schedule. (L.N. 200 of 2001)

(1AA) An Election Committee final register required to be compiled under
section 40(3A) of the Schedule to the Chief Executive Election  Ordinance (
Cap 569) is to consist of the specified particulars of persons contained in
the relevant Election Committee interim register, as amended, where
appropriate, under section 41 or 42 of that Schedule. (L.N. 112 of 2006)

(1B) An Election Committee final register required to be published under
section 40(4) of the Schedule to the Chief Executive Election  Ordinance (
Cap 569) is to consist of the following-

   (a)  subject to subsection (1D)(a), the specified particulars contained in
        the relevant Election Committee provisional register, as corrected,
        where appropriate, under section 33 or 34;

   (b)  the specified particulars of any person whom the Revising  Officer has
        ruled to be entitled to be registered, on a claim made by that person;
        and

   (c)  the additions, if any, under section 34(1)(b). (L.N. 200 of 2001)

(1C) In compiling an Election Committee final register required under
section 40(2) or (3) of the Schedule to the Chief Executive Election 
Ordinance ( Cap 569), the Electoral Registration Officer must not include in
the register the specified particulars of the following persons-

   (a)  any person in respect of whose registration an objection has been made
        and the Revising Officer has allowed the objection; and

   (b)  any person whose personal particulars have been included in an
        Election Committee omissions list and who has not made a claim in
        respect of it or who has made a claim but the claim has not been
        allowed by the Revising Officer. (L.N. 200 of 2001)

(1D) In compiling an Election Committee final register required under
section 40(2), (3) or (4) of the Schedule to the Chief Executive 
Election Ordinance ( Cap 569), the Electoral Registration Officer must ensure
that if, on an objection or a claim made by a person, the Revising  Officer
has made a ruling-

   (a)  as to the part or subsector in which the person is to be registered,
        the person's specified particulars are recorded in that part or
        subsector; or

   (b)  on the specified particulars of a person, those particulars are
        corrected and recorded in accordance with the ruling. (L.N. 200 of
        2001)

(1E) For the purposes of subsections (1C) and (1D), only decisions made by the
Revising Officer after the date of publication of the relevant
Election Committee provisional register but not later than the twentieth day
after that date are to be taken into account. (L.N. 200 of 2001)

(2) If, upon the occurrence of any event set out in-

   (a)  section 41(2) of the Schedule to the Chief Executive Election 
        Ordinance ( Cap 569), the Electoral Registration Officer must, under
        that section, remove a person's name from an
        Election Committee interim  register or an
        Election Committee final register; or

   (b)  section 41(3) of the Schedule to the Chief Executive Election 
        Ordinance ( Cap 569), the Electoral Registration Officer must, under
        that section, register in an Election Committee interim register or an
        Election  Committee final register a person as an ex-officio member,
        he must do so as soon as practicable after he becomes aware of such
        event. (L.N. 307 of 1999)

(3) The Electoral Registration Officer must, within 14 days of adding any name
to or removing any name from an Election Committee interim  register or an
Election Committee final register under section 41(2) or

(3) of the Schedule to the Chief Executive Election Ordinance ( Cap 569),
publish under section 41(4) of that Schedule a notice in the Gazette of such
addition or removal, as the case may be. (L.N. 307 of 1999)

(4) If the Electoral Registration Officer is to amend an Election 
Committee interim register or an Election Committee final register under
section 42(2) of the Schedule to the Chief Executive Election Ordinance (
Cap 569) to effect a direction of a Revising Officer, that Officer must do so
as soon as practicable after being notified of the direction. (L.N. 200 of
2001)

(5) The Electoral Registration Officer must, within 14 days of amending an
Election Committee interim register or an Election Committee  final register
under section 42(2) of the Schedule to the Chief Executive  Election Ordinance
( Cap 569), publish under section 42(3) of that Schedule a notice in the
Gazette of the amendment. (L.N. 200 of 2001) (L.N. 200 of 2001; L.N. 112 of
2006)