Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (ELECTION COMMITTEE) REGULATION - SECT 19

Returning Officer to publish notice for purposes of sections 7(8) and 25(1) of Schedule to Chief Executive Election Ordinance

(1) The Returning Officer must, within 14 days after the expiry of the period
referred to in section 3(3)(c), publish a notice in the Gazette declaring, for
the purposes of section 7(8) of the Schedule to the Chief 
Executive Election Ordinance ( Cap 569), the nominee or nominees who become an
EC member or EC members as such member or members.

(2) If, for a subsector-

   (a)  no more candidates have been validly nominated for the
        subsector ordinary election than the number of EC members allocated to
        the subsector; or

   (b)  no more candidates have been validly nominated for the
        subsector by-election than the number of EC members to be returned at
        the subsector by-election, the Returning Officer must, in the notice
        published for that subsector under section 18 or in a separate notice,
        declare, for the purposes of section 25(1) of the Schedule to the
        Chief Executive Election Ordinance ( Cap 569), the candidate or
        candidates as being duly elected as an EC  member or as EC members for
        that subsector.

(3) A separate notice under subsection (2) must-

   (a)  be published in the Gazette within 14 days after the expiry of the
        nomination period;

   (b)  state the name and address of each candidate declared to be duly
        elected as an EC member; and

   (c)  be in the specified form.