Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL PROCEDURE (VILLAGE REPRESENTATIVE ELECTION) REGULATION - SECT 4

Director of Home Affairs to publish village election notice

PART 2

NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES AND OTHER STAGES OF AN ELECTION BEFORE THE POLL

(1) As soon as practicable after a notice is given under section 20(3)(b) of
the Election Ordinance, the Director of Home Affairs shall publish in the
Gazette a notice which states-

   (a)  the name of the Village for which the village ordinary election is to
        be held;

   (b)  the number of Village Representatives (specifying whether they are
        Resident Representatives or Indigenous Inhabitant Representatives) to
        be returned for the Village at the village ordinary election;

   (c)  the nomination period determined under section 5 within which
        nomination forms for the village ordinary election are to be delivered
        to the Returning Officer;

   (d)  the address of the office of the Returning Officer at which nomination
        forms must be delivered;

   (e)  that nomination forms must be delivered during ordinary 
        business hours;

   (f)  that a poll will be held on the polling day if the number of validly
        nominated candidates for the Village exceeds the number of Village 
        Representatives to be returned for that Village at the
        village ordinary  election; and

   (g)  any other information that the Director of Home Affairs considers
        appropriate.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), one notice may be published for more
than one Village.