Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (DISTRICT COUNCILS) REGULATION - SECT 16

Returning Officer to decide whether candidates are validly nominated

(1) The Returning Officer must, as soon as practicable after receiving a
nomination form, decide whether a candidate is validly nominated.

(2) If sections 20, 21 and 34 of the District Councils Ordinance ( Cap 547)
and section 12 are complied with, the candidate stands validly nominated
unless-

   (a)  the Returning Officer decides that the nomination form is invalid; or

   (b)  the candidate withdraws his or her candidature.

(3) Without prejudice to sections 20, 21 and 34 of the District 
Councils Ordinance ( Cap 547), the Returning Officer may decide that a
nomination form is invalid if and only if-

   (a)  the nomination form has not been signed by the prescribed  number of
        subscribers qualified to subscribe to the nomination form under the
        District Councils (Subscribers and Election Deposit for Nomination)
        Regulation ( Cap 547 sub. leg. A);

   (b)  the nomination form has not been completed or signed as required under
        this Regulation;

   (c)  the Returning Officer is satisfied that the candidate is not eligible
        to be or is disqualified from being nominated as a candidate under the
        District Councils Ordinance ( Cap 547);

   (d)  the candidate has been nominated for another constituency in the same
        election, and the Returning Officer is satisfied that the other
        candidature has not been withdrawn;

   (e)  the candidate has not lodged the appropriate deposit; or

   (f)  the Returning Officer is satisfied that the candidate is dead.

(4) In this section "prescribed number" (訂明數目) means the number of
subscribers required to subscribe to the nomination form under the District
Councils (Subscribers and Election Deposit for Nomination) Regulation (
Cap 547 sub. leg. A).

"prescribed number" (訂明數目)