Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (ELECTION COMMITTEE) REGULATION - SECT 13

Returning Officer to decide whether candidates are validly nominated

Caution: This is a past version. See the current version here.

(1) The Returning Officer must, as soon as practicable after receiving a
subsector nomination form, decide whether the candidate is validly nominated.

(2) If section 8 and sections 17 and 18 of the Schedule to the
Chief Executive Election Ordinance ( Cap 569) are complied with, the candidate
stands validly nominated unless-

   (a)  the Returning Officer decides that the subsector nomination  form is
        invalid; or

   (b)  the candidate withdraws his or her candidature.

(3) Without prejudice to sections 17 and 18 of the Schedule to the
Chief Executive Election Ordinance ( Cap 569), the Returning Officer may
decide a nomination to be invalid if and only if-

   (a)  the subsector nomination form has not been signed by the
        prescribed number of subscribers qualified to subscribe to a
        subsector  nomination form under the Election Committee (Subscribers
        and Election Deposit for Nomination) Regulation ( Cap 569 sub. leg.
        C);

   (b)  the subsector nomination form has not been completed or signed as
        required under this Regulation;

   (c)  the Returning Officer is satisfied that the candidate is not eligible
        to be or is disqualified from being nominated as a candidate under the
        Schedule to the Chief Executive Election Ordinance ( Cap 569);

   (d)  the candidate has not lodged the appropriate deposit; or

   (e)  the Returning Officer is satisfied that the candidate is dead.

(4) In this section, "prescribed number" (訂明數目) means the number of
subscribers required to subscribe to a nomination form for a subsector 
election under the Election Committee (Subscribers and Election Deposit for
Nomination) Regulation ( Cap 569 sub. leg. C).

"prescribed number" (訂明數目)