Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTION COMMITTEE (APPEALS) REGULATION - SECT 8

Electoral Registration Officer to be notified of ruling

(Past version on 16/11/2001).

(1) Where-

   (a)  the result of the subsector election to which the appeal notice
        relates stands pursuant to section 6;

   (b)  the decision of the Electoral Registration Officer stands pursuant to
        section 6; or

   (c)  the Revising Officer makes a ruling under section 6, the Revising
        Officer shall notify the Electoral Registration Officer on a date not
        later than 3 working days after the expiry of the period referred to
        in section 5(3) or (4), as the case may be, that the result or
        decision shall stand or of his ruling, as may be appropriate.

(2) Where the Revising Officer-

   (a)  makes a ruling under section 6(1)(b) and determines that the person
        whose election is questioned was not duly elected; or

   (b)  makes a ruling under section 6(2)(b) and determines that the
        declared member concerned should not have been registered as a member
        of the Election Committee (whether or not he is also required to
        determine that some other nominee should be declared and registered as
        such a member instead), he shall, on a date not later than 3 working
        days after the expiry of the period referred to in section 5(3) or
        (4), as the case may be, direct the Electoral Registration Officer to
        incorporate his ruling in the interim  register or final register. (10
        of 2006 s. 25)