Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (DISTRICT COUNCILS) REGULATION - SECT 12

How to nominate a candidate for a constituency

Caution: This is a past version. See the current version here.

(1) A person is to be nominated as a candidate by submitting to the
Returning Officer a nomination form which complies with this section.

(2) The nomination form must be submitted in accordance with this section.

(3) The nomination form must be in the specified form and subscribed in
accordance with the District Councils (Subscribers and Election Deposit for
Nomination) Regulation ( Cap 547 sub. leg.).

(4) The candidate must make the declaration required by section  34 (1)(b) of
the District Councils Ordinance ( Cap 547) in the appropriate place on the
nomination form.

(5) The nomination form must contain a declaration by the candidate to the
effect that he or she-

   (a)  is eligible to be nominated as a candidate;

   (b)  is not disqualified from being so nominated; and

   (c)  consents to being so nominated.

(6) The nomination form-

   (a)  must contain the name of the candidate as shown on the candidate's
        identity document (being the identity document based on which the
        particulars of the candidate are recorded in the final register) and,
        if the Returning Officer is satisfied that the candidate is usually
        known by a name different from that shown on the candidate's
        identity document, may include that different name of the candidate;
        and

   (b)  must also contain the identity document number and principal 
        residential address of the candidate.

(7) The nomination form must be signed by the candidate in each place the
candidate's signature is required on that form.

(8) The nomination form must be signed by each subscriber. It must contain the
name, identity document number and registered residential  address of each
subscriber.

(9) The nomination form must contain other particulars (if any) required to be
furnished on that form.

(10) The Returning Officer may require a candidate to furnish any other
information that Officer considers appropriate in order to be satisfied-

   (a)  that he or she is eligible to be nominated as a candidate for a
        constituency; or

   (b)  as to the validity of the nomination.

(11) Only one person can be nominated by one nomination form.

(12) The nomination form must be submitted to the Returning Officer within the
nomination period at the specified address.

(13) The nomination form must be submitted by the candidate in person or in
any other manner authorized by the Chief Electoral Officer.