Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (DISTRICT COUNCILS) REGULATION - SECT 39

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

(1) The Chief Electoral Officer must supply to the Returning  Officer-

   (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, a copy or extract of
        the part of the final register, which relates to the constituency for
        which the Returning Officer is appointed.

(2) A copy or extract for the purposes of this section must be supplied after
the relevant notice of nominations is published.

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

   (a)  must, in an entry relating to an elector, show-

        (i)    the identity document number of the elector; and

        (ii)   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, and the entries in the copy may be
        re-arranged in the format or order as the Chief Electoral Officer
        considers appropriate.

(4) A copy or 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.