Hong Kong Regulations

PARTICULARS RELATING TO CANDIDATES ON BALLOT PAPERS (LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL AND DISTRICT COUNCILS) REGULATION,PARTICULARS RELATING TO CANDIDATES ON BALLOT PAPERS (LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL AND DISTRICT COUNCILS) REGULATION - SECT 3

Request by candidate for LC functional constituency or sole candidate on LC nomination list or by candidate for DC constituency

(Past version on 18/05/2007).
(Past version on 02/07/2004).

Request by candidate for LC functional constituency or sole candidate on
LC nomination list or by candidate for DC constituency (L.N. 47 of 2007)

PART 2

REQUEST TO PRINT PARTICULARS RELATING TO CANDIDATES ON BALLOT PAPERS

(1) This section applies—

   (a)  in relation to an LC election—

        (i)    to a candidate for an LC functional constituency; or

        (ii)   to a candidate who is the sole candidate on an LC nomination 
               list; or

   (b)  in relation to a DC election, to a candidate for a DC  constituency.
        (L.N. 47 of 2007)

(2) A candidate to whom this section applies may, during the
relevant nomination period, request the Commission to print the following
particulars on a ballot paper as particulars relating to the candidate—

   (a)  the particulars described in subsection (3);

   (b)  a personal photograph of the candidate.

(3) The particulars referred to in subsection (2)(a) are the particulars set
out in any one of the following paragraphs, with or without the particulars
specified in item 4 of the Schedule—

   (a)  the particulars specified in item 1 or item 2 or both of the Schedule
        and relating to not more than 3 prescribed bodies;

   (b)  the particulars specified in item 3 of the Schedule and relating to
        the candidate; or

   (c)  the particulars specified in item 1 or item 2 or both of the Schedule
        and relating to not more than 2 prescribed bodies, and the particulars
        specified in item 3 of the Schedule and relating to the candidate.
        (L.N. 19 of 2004)

(4) A request made under subsection (2)—

   (a)  must be in the specified form and signed by the requestor;

   (b)  must contain the name and address of the requestor;

   (c)  must indicate that the requestor requests that the subject of  request
        be printed on a ballot paper as particulars relating to the requestor;

   (d)  must set out the particulars of the subject of request and, where the
        subject of request includes a photograph, must be accompanied by the
        photograph; and

   (e)  where the subject of request relates to one or more prescribed bodies,
        must be accompanied by a consent given, during the relevant 
        nomination period, by the body or each of the bodies, as the case may
        be, in relation to the request in accordance with section 5(1). (L.N.
        19 of 2004)

(5) A requestor may, during the relevant nomination period, by notice in
writing given to the Commission, withdraw a request made under subsection (2).

(6) If a candidate to whom this section applies has, during the
relevant nomination period, made a request under subsection (2) and the
request is not withdrawn under subsection (5) or is not deemed to have been
withdrawn under section 5(3), the candidate must not, during that nomination
period, make a further request under subsection (2).