Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (ELECTION COMMITTEE) REGULATION - SECT 12

Returning Officer to decide whether nominee for religious subsector is validly nominated

(1) The Returning Officer must, as soon as practicable after receiving a
religious subsector nomination form under section 7, decide whether each
nominee is validly nominated.

(2) If section 7 and sections 8 and 9 of the Schedule to the Chief 
Executive Election Ordinance ( Cap 569) are complied with, a nominee for the
religious subsector stands validly nominated (subject to section 7(7) of that
Schedule) to be an EC member, unless the Returning Officer decides that the
religious subsector nomination form is invalid.