Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS) (VILLAGE REPRESENTATIVE ELECTION) REGULATION - SECT 11

ERO to determine whether or not applicant is eligible for registration

PART 4

COMPILATION OF PROVISIONAL REGISTER

(1) When the ERO receives an application by a person for registration-

   (a)  in the Existing Villages provisional register, the ERO must, as soon
        as practicable, but subject to subsections (2) and (3) and sections 
        12 and 13, determine either-

        (i)    that the applicant is eligible to be so registered; or

        (ii)   that the applicant is not eligible to be so registered; or

   (b)  in the Indigenous Villages and Composite Indigenous Villages
        provisional register, the ERO must, as soon as practicable, but
        subject to subsections (2) and (4) and sections 12 and 14, determine
        either-

        (i)    that the applicant is eligible to be so registered; or

        (ii)   that the applicant is not eligible to be so registered.

(2) The ERO must not consider an application further if at any stage the ERO
is satisfied on reasonable grounds that the application is manifestly an abuse
of the registration procedure.

(3) If, in relation to an application for registration in the
Existing Villages provisional register, the ERO is satisfied on reasonable
grounds that the applicant is already registered in the existing final 
register for Existing Villages, for the Village named by the applicant on the
application, the ERO may decide not to consider the application further.

(4) If, in relation to an application for registration in the
Indigenous Villages and Composite Indigenous Villages provisional  register,
the ERO is satisfied on reasonable grounds that the applicant is already
registered in the existing Indigenous Villages and Composite 
Indigenous Villages final register, for the Village named by the applicant on
the application, the ERO may decide not to consider the application further.