Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL) REGULATION - SECT 5

Chief Electoral Officer to publish a notice specifying a period and place for submitting nomination forms for functional constituencies

(1) As soon as practicable after the publication of the notice 
appointing the election day, the Chief Electoral Officer must publish in the
Gazette, for the functional constituencies, a notice which complies with
subsection (2).

(2) A notice referred to in subsection (1) must state in relation to each
functional constituency-

   (a)  the name of the functional constituency and the number of Members to
        be returned for that functional constituency;

   (b)  the period within which nomination forms for the functional 
        constituency are to be submitted to the Returning Officer;

   (c)  the address at which the nomination forms are to be submitted;

   (d)  that nomination forms must be submitted during ordinary 
        business hours;

   (e)  the date on which the election for the functional constituency is to
        be held; and

   (f)  that a poll will be held on the date referred to in paragraph

   (e)  for the functional constituency, if the number of validly nominated 
        candidates for that functional constituency exceeds the number of
        Members to be returned for that functional constituency.