Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL) REGULATION - SECT 10

How to nominate a candidate for a geographical constituency

(Past version on 05/05/2000).
(Past version on 21/01/1998).

(1) A person is to be nominated as a candidate for a geographical 
constituency by submitting to the Returning Officer a nomination form
containing a nomination list which complies with section 38 of the
Legislative Council Ordinance ( Cap 542) and this section.

(2) The nomination form for the purposes of subsection (1) must be submitted
in person by one of the candidates on the nomination list as required by
section 38 of the Legislative Council Ordinance ( Cap 542) and in accordance
with this section.

(3) The nomination form must be in the specified form and subscribed in
accordance with the Legislative Council (Subscribers and Election Deposit for
Nomination) Regulation ( Cap 542 sub. leg. C).

(4) Each candidate on a nomination list must make the declarations and
promissory oath required by section 40(1)(b) of the Legislative 
Council Ordinance ( Cap 542) in the appropriate place on the nomination  form.

(5) The nomination form must contain a declaration by each candidate to the
effect that he or she-

   (a)  is eligible to be nominated as a candidate for a geographical 
        constituency;

   (b)  is not disqualified from being so nominated;

   (c)  consents to being so nominated; and

   (d)  in the case of a multiple nominees list, consents to the order of
        priority in which the names of candidates appear on the
        nomination list.

(6) The nomination form-

   (a)  must contain the name of each candidate as shown on the candidate's
        identity document (being the identity document on the basis of which
        the particulars of the candidate are recorded in the geographical 
        constituencies final register) and, if the Returning Officer is
        satisfied that any of the candidate is usually known by a name
        different from that shown on the candidate's identity document
        aforesaid, may also include that different name; and

   (b)  must also contain the identity document number and principal 
        residential address of each candidate. (L.N. 65 of 2000)

(7) The nomination form must be signed by each candidate in each place the
candidate's signature is required on that form.

(8) The nomination form must be signed by each subscriber. It must contain the
name and identity document number of each subscriber. (L.N. 84 of 2004)

(9) The nomination form must contain other particulars (if any) required to be
furnished on that form.

(10) The Returning Officer may require a candidate to furnish any other
information that Officer considers appropriate to be satisfied-

   (a)  that he or she is eligible to be nominated as a candidate for a
        geographical constituency; or

   (b)  as to the validity of the nomination.

(11) The nomination form must be submitted to the Returning Officer within the
nomination period at the specified address.