Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (NOMINATIONS ADVISORY COMMITTEES (DISTRICT COUNCILS)) REGULATION - SECT 6

Procedure relating to applications by Returning Officers

(1) A Returning Officer may, as regards an election in relation to which a
Committee is appointed, apply in accordance with subsection (3) to that
Committee for advice as to whether a candidate who has submitted a
nomination form to that Officer under any relevant regulation made under the
Ordinance is eligible to be, or disqualified from being, nominated as a
candidate at that election.

(2) An application under subsection (1) must be in writing and made so as to
be received by the Chief Electoral Officer on or before a date specified by
the Commission by notice published in the Gazette for the purposes of this
subsection.

(3) A Committee to which an application is made under subsection

(1) must consider the application and advise the Returning Officer concerned
as soon as reasonably practicable but before the expiry of the
relevant period, as to whether, in the opinion of that Committee, the
candidate concerned is eligible to be, or disqualified from being, nominated
as a candidate at the election concerned.

(4) In making a decision under the relevant regulations made under the
Ordinance as to whether a particular candidate is validly nominated, the
Returning Officer must have regard to any advice given under section 5 or 8 or
subsection (3) as regards that candidate.

(5) In this section, references to Returning Officer are to be construed as
references to the Returning Officer appointed for the constituency, in respect
of which the candidate concerned has submitted a nomination form.

(6) Any advice given under this section must be in writing.

(7) In this section, "relevant period" (有關限期) means the period
specified under section 3(4) as the period during which a Committee must
perform its function under section 3(1)(b).

"relevant period" (有關限期)