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

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

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(3) (Repealed L.N. 84 of 2004)

(4) A separate notice under subsection (1) or (2) must- (L.N. 84 of 2004)

   (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.