Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (ELECTION COMMITTEE) REGULATION - SECT 4

Chief Electoral Officer to publish notice specifying period and address for submitting subsector nomination forms

(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 subsectors concerned, 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
subsector by-election, 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 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 names of all the subsectors and the
               number of EC members allocated to each subsector;

        (ii)   in subsection (2), the name of the subsector or each subsector
               for which a subsector by-election is to be held and the number
               of EC  members to be returned for the subsector or each
               subsector at the subsector by-election;

   (b)  the period within which the subsector nomination forms are to be
        submitted to the Returning Officer;

   (c)  the address at which the subsector nomination forms are to be
        submitted;

   (d)  that the subsector nomination forms must be submitted during
        ordinary business hours;

   (e)  the date on which the subsector election is to be held; and

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

        (i)    in subsection (1), that a poll will be held on the date
               referred to in paragraph (e) for a subsector, if the number of
               validly  nominated candidates for the subsector exceeds the
               number of EC members allocated to the subsector;

        (ii)   in subsection (2), that a poll will be held on the date
               referred to in paragraph (e) for a subsector, if the number of
               validly  nominated candidates for the subsector exceeds the
               number of EC members to be returned at the
               subsector by-election.