Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL) REGULATION - SECT 21

Returning Officer to publish a notice of particulars of validly nominated candidates

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

(1) The Returning Officer must, within 14 days of the expiry of the
nomination period, publish a notice in the Gazette which complies with this
section.

(2) A notice referred to in subsection (1) must be published for all
geographical constituencies and functional constituencies. (L.N. 84 of 2004)

(3) For the purposes of subsection (2), separate notices may be published for
each geographical constituency and each functional  constituency or one notice
may be published for all the geographical constituencies and one notice may be
published for all the functional constituencies. (L.N. 84 of 2004)

(4) A notice published for a geographical constituency must state-

   (a)  which lists of candidates are validly nominated for that
        geographical constituency and state the number allocated to each list
        under section 49(6); and

   (b)  the name and the principal residential address of each validly 
        nominated candidate in each list.

(5) A notice published for a functional constituency must state-

   (a)  the name and the principal residential address of each validly 
        nominated candidate for that functional constituency; and

   (b)  in the case of an ordinary functional constituency, the letter of the
        alphabet assigned to that functional constituency followed by the
        number allocated to each candidate under section 49(8); and in the
        case of a special functional constituency the abbreviation for the
        name of that special functional constituency followed by the letter of
        the alphabet allocated to each candidate under section 49(9). (L.N.
        147 of 1998; L.N. 65 of 2000)

(6) (Repealed L.N. 84 of 2004)

(7) A notice under this section must be in the specified form.

(8) If one notice is to be published under this section for-

   (a)  all the geographical constituencies; or

   (b)  all the functional constituencies, the notice is to be published by
        the Returning Officer specified for the purpose by the Chief Electoral
        Officer. (L.N. 65 of 2000)