Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (DISTRICT COUNCILS) REGULATION - SECT 38

Chief Electoral Officer to supply candidates with copy or extract of final register

(1) The Chief Electoral Officer must supply to each candidate-

   (a)  in the case of the first ordinary election, a copy of the part of the
        final register; or

   (b)  in the case of any subsequent ordinary election, an extract of the
        part of the final register, which relates to the constituency for
        which that candidate is nominated.

(2) A copy or extract for the purposes of this section must be supplied to a
candidate as soon as practicable after the relevant nomination form is
submitted to the Returning Officer.

(3) A copy under subsection (1)(a)-

   (a)  must, in an entry relating to an elector, show the sex of the elector,
        denoted by the letter "M" for male and "F" for female; and

   (b)  may contain additional particulars or information the Chief Electoral
        Officer thinks fit to include.

(4) An extract under subsection (1)(b) may contain additional particulars or
information the Chief Electoral Officer thinks fit to include.

(5) The form in which a copy or extract is supplied may be in a printed form,
a form which is capable of being read by a computer or any other form
determined by the Chief Electoral Officer.

(6) A copy or extract for the purposes of this section may be supplied to the
election agent of a candidate instead of the candidate to whom it is required
to be supplied.