Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (NOMINATIONS ADVISORY COMMITTEES (ELECTION COMMITTEE)) REGULATION - SECT 9

Committee to attend and give advice at the meeting called by the Commission

(1) Without prejudice to section 7, a Committee must-

   (a)  at the request of the Commission, attend such meeting as may be called
        by the Commission at the close of the nomination period for a
        particular ordinary election, by-election,
        nomination for the religious  subsector or
        supplementary nomination for the religious subsector, as the case may
        be; and

   (b)  as far as reasonably practicable, give advice at the meeting to any
        Returning Officer present on any matter referred to in section 7(1) or

(2) regarding that ordinary election, by-election, nomination for the 
religious subsector or supplementary nomination for the religious  subsector,
as the case may be, on which the Returning Officer may wish to seek advice
from the Committee.

(2) An advice given under subsection (1)(b) may be either oral or in writing.