Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS AND DISTRICT COUNCIL ELECTIONS) (APPLICATION AND PAYMENT PROCEDURE) REGULATION - SECT 13

Making claims on behalf of deceased candidates

(Past version on 15/07/2004).

(1) If an eligible LC candidate or eligible DC candidate or a candidate on an
eligible list of LC candidates dies before a claim is made or before a payment
is made on a claim, anything that a deceased candidate may do or is required
to do by or under this Regulation may be done by the legal personal
representative of the deceased candidate. (L.N. 80 of 2007)

(2) If there is no legal personal representative or the legal personal
representative is unwilling to act, anything that a legal personal
representative may do under subsection (1) may be done by the next of kin of
the deceased candidate.