Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL) REGULATION - SECT 22

Returning Officer to publish a notice for the purposes of section 46(1) of the Legislative Council Ordinance

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(1) If, for a geographical constituency, no more candidates have been validly
nominated than the number of Members to be returned for that constituency, the
Returning Officer must, in the notice published for that constituency under
section 21 or in a separate notice, declare, for the purposes of section 46(1)
of the Legislative Council Ordinance ( Cap 542), the candidate or candidates
as being duly elected as a Member or Members for that constituency.

(2) If, for a functional constituency, no more candidates have been validly
nominated than the number of Members to be returned for that constituency, the
Returning Officer must, in the notice published for that constituency under
section 21 or in a separate notice, declare, for the purposes of section 46(1)
of the Legislative Council Ordinance ( Cap 542), the candidate or candidates
as being duly elected as a Member or Members for that constituency.

(3) If the number of candidates validly nominated for the Election 
Committee election does not exceed 6, the Returning Officer must, in the
notice published for that election under section 21 or in a separate notice,
declare, for the purposes of section 46(1) of the Legislative 
Council Ordinance ( Cap 542), the candidate or candidates as being duly
elected as a Member or Members by the Election Committee. (L.N. 65 of 2000)

(4) A separate notice under subsection (1), (2) or (3) must-

   (a)  be published in the Gazette within 14 days of the expiry of the
        nomination period;

   (b)  state the name and the principal residential address of the candidate
        declared to be duly elected as a Member; and

   (c)  be in the specified form.