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 5

Consent of prescribed body in relation to request

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

(1) The consent of a prescribed body referred to in section 3(4)(e) or
4(5)(e)—

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

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

   (c)  must be given to—

        (i)    in the case of a request made under section 3(2), the requestor
               concerned; or

        (ii)   in the case of a request made under section 4(2), the requestor
               concerned and the other candidate or candidates on the LC 
               nomination list concerned; and (L.N. 47 of 2007)

   (d)  must indicate that the body consents to the subject of request
        relating to the body being printed on a ballot paper—

        (i)    in the case of a request made under section 3(2), as
               particulars relating to the requestor concerned; or

        (ii)   in the case of a request made under section 4(2), as
               particulars relating to the requestor concerned and the other
               candidate or candidates on the nomination list concerned.

(2) A prescribed body may, during the relevant nomination period, by notice in
writing given to the Commission, withdraw a consent given in relation to a
request made under section 3(2) or 4(2).

(3) If the consent given by a prescribed body in relation to a request made
under section 3(2) or 4(2) is withdrawn by the body, the request is deemed to
have been withdrawn by the requestor concerned.