Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (DISTRICT COUNCILS) REGULATION - SECT 7

Electoral Registration Officer to publish notice of the register and to make the register available for public inspection

(1) The Electoral Registration Officer must, as soon as practicable after the
register for the first ordinary election is compiled under section 4, publish
in the Gazette and at least one Chinese language daily newspaper and one
English language daily newspaper, in circulation in Hong Kong, a notice which
complies with subsection (2).

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

   (a)  that a copy of the register is available for public inspection during
        ordinary business hours; and

   (b)  the place or places at which a copy of the register may be inspected
        by the public.

(3) The Electoral Registration Officer must make available for public
inspection, a copy of the register at the place or places specified in the
notice during ordinary business hours.

(4) The Electoral Registration Officer may make available for public
inspection, a copy of a specific part of the register at a place additional to
the place or places specified in the notice published under this section. The
Electoral Registration Officer may determine the period during which and the
times at which it may be so inspected.

(5) The Electoral Registration Officer may require a person who wishes to
inspect a copy of the register or any part of it to produce to that Officer
his or her identity document and to complete a form furnished by that Officer.

(6) Publication of a notice under subsection (1) is to be treated as the
publication of the register for the purposes of section 31(1)(b) of the
District Councils Ordinance ( Cap 547).