Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (ELECTION COMMITTEE) REGULATION - SECT 3

Chief Electoral Officer to publish notice calling for nominations or supplementary nominations for religious subsector

PART 2

NOMINATIONS AND SUPPLEMENTARY NOMINATIONS FOR RELIGIOUS SUBSECTOR AND
NOMINATIONS FOR OTHER SUBSECTORS AND OTHER STAGES OF SUBSECTOR ELECTION BEFORE
POLL

Division 1: Nominations

(1) As soon as practicable after the publication of a notice 
appointing the subsector ordinary election day, the Chief Electoral Officer
must publish in the Gazette, for the religious subsector, a notice which
complies with subsection (3).

(2) Where the Commission is required under section 5(1) of the Schedule to the
Chief Executive Election Ordinance ( Cap 569) to arrange for a supplementary
nomination to fill a vacancy among the members representing the religious
subsector on the Election Committee, as soon as practicable after the
ascertainment under paragraph (a) of that section  5 (1) is made, the Chief
Electoral Officer must publish in the Gazette, for that subsector, a notice
which complies with subsection (3).

(3) The notice must state-

   (a)  in the case of a notice referred to-

        (i)    in subsection (1), the name of each designated body and the
               number of EC members allocated to each designated body by the
               order in force under section 6(2) of the Schedule to the
               Chief Executive Election  Ordinance ( Cap 569);

        (ii)   in subsection (2), the number of vacancies to be filled and the
               name of the designated body that may nominate under
               section 7(2) of the Schedule to the
               Chief Executive Election Ordinance ( Cap 569) a number of
               persons selected by it to fill each of the vacancies;

   (b)  that forms nominating EC members for the purposes of section  7 (1) or
        (2) of the Schedule to the Chief Executive Election Ordinance ( Cap 
        569) are to be submitted to the Returning Officer;

   (c)  the period within which and the address at which the forms referred to
        in paragraph (b) are to be submitted; and

   (d)  that the forms referred to in paragraph (b) must be submitted during
        ordinary business hours.

(4) The period for the purposes of subsection (3)(c) is to be determined by
the Chief Electoral Officer.