Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS) (VILLAGE REPRESENTATIVE ELECTION) REGULATION - SECT 30

ERO to publish notice of final register and to make final register available for public inspection

(1) For the purposes of section 17(1)(b) of the Election Ordinance, the ERO
must publish a notice which complies with subsections (2) and (3)-

   (a)  in the Gazette; and

   (b)  in at least one Chinese language daily newspaper and one English
        language daily newspaper in circulation in Hong Kong.

(2) The notice must be published for-

   (a)  the first final register, not later than 3 June 2003; and

   (b)  a subsequent final register, every year, not later than 20 October.

(3) The notice must specify-

   (a)  that a copy of the final register is available for public inspection
        during ordinary business hours; and

   (b)  the place or places at which a copy of the final register may be so
        inspected by the public.

(4) The ERO must make available for public inspection, a copy of the
final register-

   (a)  during ordinary business hours; and

   (b)  at the place or places specified in the notice.

(5) The ERO may make available for public inspection, a copy of a
specific part or division of the final register ("additional copy"), at a
place additional to a place specified in a notice published under this
section, if the ERO considers it appropriate to do so. The ERO may determine
the period during which and the time at which an additional copy may be
inspected by the public.

(6) The ERO may require a person who wishes to inspect a copy of the
final register under subsection (4) or an additional copy under subsection (5)
to produce to the ERO that person's identity document and to complete a form
supplied by the ERO.

(7) Publication of a notice in the Gazette under subsection (1) is to be
treated as the publication of the final register for the purposes of sections
17(1)(b) and 18 of the Election Ordinance.