Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS) (VILLAGE REPRESENTATIVE ELECTION) REGULATION - SECT 34

ERO's responsibility regarding communications

(1) A communication that the ERO is required by this Regulation to send by
registered post to a person, in compiling an Existing Villages  register, must
be sent by registered post to the last address furnished by the person as his
or her principal residential address.

(2) Subject to subsection (4), a communication that the ERO is required by
this Regulation to send by registered post to a person, in compiling an
Indigenous Villages and Composite Indigenous Villages  register, must be sent
by registered post-

   (a)  to the last address furnished by the person as his or her
        principal residential address; or

   (b)  if the person has not furnished a principal residential  address, to
        that person's postal address in Hong Kong.

(3) If, under this Regulation, any communication is sent to a person by the
ERO by registered post, that person is deemed to have received it unless it is
returned through the post undelivered to the addressee.

(4) If a person seeking registration or registered in the
Indigenous Villages and Composite Indigenous Villages register does not
furnish to the ERO the principal residential address or a postal address in
Hong Kong, the ERO is not required to send to that person any communication
which the ERO, if not for this subsection, would have been required to send to
that person by registered post. But, the ERO may send that communication to
that person by any other means that the person has made available to the ERO,
if in the circumstances of the case, the ERO considers it appropriate to do
so.

(5) Without prejudice to section 12(4), if a person seeking registration or
registered in the Indigenous Villages and Composite 
Indigenous Villages register, does not furnish to the ERO-

   (a)  the principal residential address;

   (b)  a postal address in Hong Kong for the ERO to communicate with that
        person; or

   (c)  a facsimile number or an electronic mail address for the purpose of
        receiving communications, the ERO is not required to send to that
        person any communication that is required to be in writing (but not
        required to be sent by registered post) which the ERO, if not for this
        subsection, would have been required to send to that person.

(6) In this section, "communication" (通訊) includes a decision,
determination, inquiry, notice or notification.

"communication" (通訊)