Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL) REGULATION - SECT 12

How to nominate a candidate for the Election Committee election

Caution: This is a past version. See the current version here.

(1) A person is to be nominated as a candidate for the Election 
Committee election 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.).

(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 election by the
        Election Committee;

   (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, identity document number and registered residential  address of each
subscriber.

(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 election
        by the Election Committee; or

   (b)  as to the validity of the nomination.

(11) Only one person can be nominated by one nomination form.

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

(13) The nomination form must be submitted by the candidate in person or in
any other manner authorized by the Chief Electoral Officer.