Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (ELECTION COMMITTEE) REGULATION - SECT 16

Returning Officer to endorse that nomination form is invalid

(1) If the Returning Officer decides that a religious subsector 
nomination form or a subsector nomination form is invalid or that the
nomination of a nominee for the religious subsector or of a candidate is
invalid, that Officer must endorse on the relevant nomination form the
decision and the reasons for it.

(2) The Returning Officer must sign an endorsement under subsection

(1).

(3) A decision that the nomination of a nominee for the religious subsector is
valid or invalid must be sent to the nominee concerned, the designated body
that nominated that nominee and the other nominees who are nominated by that
designated body.

(4) The Returning Officer must send a notice of a decision that a person is
validly nominated or is not validly nominated as a candidate-

   (a)  to the person concerned at that person's address given on the
        subsector nomination form; and

   (b)  to each validly nominated candidate for the subsector concerned at the
        candidate's address given on the subsector nomination form.