Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS) (APPLICATION AND PAYMENT PROCEDURE) REGULATION - SECT 10

Payment in cases of death of candidate (multi-candidate list)

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(1) If the candidate to whom a payment of financial assistance is to be made
under subsection (5) or section 8(4)(b) dies before the payment is made, all
the candidates on the eligible list of candidates and the legal personal
representative of the deceased candidate must nominate another candidate to
receive the payment on behalf of the candidates on the list, by signing a
notice of variation.

(2) The notice of variation must be in the specified form.

(3) The notice of variation must be presented in person at the office of the
Chief Electoral Officer during ordinary business hours by one of the
candidates who has signed the claim form or the agent of one of the
candidates. (L.N. 31 of 2004)

(4) On receiving the notice of variation, the Chief Electoral Officer must
notify the Director of Accounting Services of the person to whom the payment
is to be made and the Director of Accounting Services must make the payment in
accordance with the notification.

(5) The payment under subsection (4) is to be made to the candidate nominated
in the notice of variation to receive the payment on behalf of the candidates
on the list.

(6) If all the candidates on the eligible list of candidates die before the
payment is made, the payment is to be made to the legal personal
representative of the candidate last nominated to receive the payment on
behalf of the candidates on the list.