Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (REGISTRATION) (ELECTORS FOR LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES) (VOTERS FOR ELECTION COMMITTEE SUBSECTORS) (MEMBERS OF ELECTION COMMITTEE) REGULATION - SECT 41

Electoral Registration Officer may make available extracts of registers for purposes of an election

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

(1) The Electoral Registration Officer may, any time after the publication of
the functional constituencies register, subsector register or
Election Committee register, make available an extract from any such published
register for any purpose related to an election, to any person that Officer
considers appropriate. The Electoral Registration Officer may, before making
available an extract, arrange the entries in the extract in a form that
Officer considers appropriate for the purposes of this section. (L.N. 200 of
2001)

(2) When the Electoral Registration Officer makes available an extract under
subsection (1), that Officer must specify the particular election for which it
may be used.

(3) A person to whom an extract is made available under this section must not,
in relation to that extract, do any act specified in section 42(3)(a), (c) or
(d) for a purpose other than a purpose related to the election for which it
may be used under subsection (2).

(4) In an extract made available under this section, the Electoral 
Registration Officer may include information (by way of a note or other means
that Officer thinks fit) as to whether a person whose name is included in the
extract- (L.N. 307 of 1999)

   (a)  is registered for a subsector or functional constituency or as a
        member of the Election Committee;

   (b)  is an authorized representative or has been replaced as an
        authorized representative or been substituted for by another; or

   (c)  is entitled to vote at an election.

(5) In this section, "election" (選舉) means a general election or
by-election within the meaning of section 3(1) of the Legislative Council 
Ordinance ( Cap 542), an election within the meaning of section 2(1) of the
Chief Executive Election Ordinance ( Cap 569) or an Election Committee 
subsector election. (L.N. 200 of 2001)

"election" (選舉)