Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL) REGULATION - SECT 19

Returning Officer to endorse invalid nomination forms

(Past version on 21/01/1998).

(1) If the Returning Officer decides that a nomination form or the nomination
of a candidate is invalid, that Officer must endorse on the nomination form
the decision and the reasons for it.

(2) The Returning Officer must sign an endorsement under subsection

(1).

(3) The Returning Officer must send a notice of a decision that a person is
validly nominated or is not validly nominated to the person concerned and each
validly nominated candidate for the constituency concerned. (L.N. 84 of 2004)

(4) A notice under subsection (3) must be sent to the principal 
residential address of the candidate as given on the nomination form.