Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (DISTRICT COUNCILS) REGULATION - SECT 23

Returning Officer to publish a notice for the purposes of section 39(1) of the District Councils Ordinance

(1) If only one candidate has been validly nominated for a particular
constituency, the Returning Officer must, in the notice published for that
constituency under section 22 or in a separate notice, declare, for the
purposes of section 39(1) of the District Councils  Ordinance ( Cap 547), the
candidate as being duly elected as an elected  member for that constituency.

(2) A separate notice under subsection (1) must-

   (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 an elected member; and

   (c)  be in the specified form.