Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL) REGULATION - SECT 11

How to nominate a candidate for a functional constituency

(Past version on 05/05/2000).
(Past version on 27/02/1998).
(Past version on 21/01/1998).

(1) A person is to be nominated as a candidate for a functional  constituency
by submitting to the Returning Officer a nomination form which complies with
this section.

(2) The nomination form must be submitted 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) The candidate 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 the candidate to the
effect that he or she-

   (a)  is eligible to be nominated as a candidate for the functional 
        constituency concerned;

   (b)  is not disqualified from being so nominated; and

   (c)  consents to being so nominated.

(6) The nomination form-

   (a)  must contain the name of the 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 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 the candidate. (L.N. 65 of 2000)

(7) The nomination form must be signed by the 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) In the case of an elector other than a natural person, the subscription of
the nomination form by that elector may be effected by that elector's
authorized representative. (L.N. 147 of 1998)

(10) The nomination form must contain other particulars (if any) required to
be furnished on that form. (L.N. 147 of 1998)

(11) The Returning Officer may require a candidate to furnish any other
information that Officer considers appropriate to be satisfied- (L.N. 147 of
1998)

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

   (b)  as to the validity of the nomination.

(12) Only one person can be nominated by one nomination form. (L.N. 147 of
1998)

(13) The nomination form must be submitted to the Returning Officer within the
nomination period at the specified address. (L.N. 147 of 1998)

(14) The nomination form must be submitted by the candidate in person or in
any other manner authorized by the Chief Electoral Officer. (L.N. 147 of 1998)