Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL PROCEDURE (VILLAGE REPRESENTATIVE ELECTION) REGULATION - SECT 10

Returning Officer to decide whether candidates are validly nominated

(1) The Returning Officer shall, as soon as practicable after receiving the
nomination form of a candidate, decide under section 27 of the Election
Ordinance whether the candidate is validly nominated.

(2) If sections 22, 23, 24 and 25 of the Election Ordinance are complied with,
the candidate stands validly nominated unless-

   (a)  the Returning Officer decides that the nomination form is invalid; or

   (b)  the candidate withdraws his candidature.

(3) Without prejudice to sections 22, 23, 24 and 25 of the Election Ordinance,
the Returning Officer may decide that a nomination form is invalid if and only
if-

   (a)  the nomination form has not been signed by at least 5 subscribers
        qualified to subscribe to the nomination form under section 25 of the
        Election Ordinance;

   (b)  the nomination form has not been completed or signed as required under
        this Regulation;

   (c)  the Returning Officer is satisfied that the candidate is not eligible
        to be or is disqualified from being nominated as a candidate under the
        Election Ordinance;

   (d)  (in the case that the nomination form relates to a particular Village)
        the candidate has been currently nominated for another Village, and
        the Returning Officer is satisfied that the other candidature has not
        been withdrawn or decided to be invalid; or

   (e)  the Returning Officer is satisfied that the candidate is dead.