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Thursday, May 4, 1972
REGIONAL ELECTIONS OF SPECIAL COUNCILLORS
For The 20th Term Of Heung Yee Kuk
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The 19th Term of the Heung Yee Kuk the statutory advisory body
to Government on all matters affecting the New Territories
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will cease
to hold office on May 31, 1972, and regional elections to fill 21 seats of
Special Councillors for the 20th Term will be held on Monday, May 8.
Eighty-two electors, consisting of the Chairmen and Vice-Chairmen
of all Rural Committees and the 11 Unofficial New Territories Justices
of the Peace, will be eligible to vote for the candidates in their
respective electoral districts.
There are seven seats for each of the three Electoral Matricts
in Tai Po, Yuen Long and Southern (which comprises the administrative
districts of Sai Kung, Islands, and Tsuen Wan). There are altogether
27 candidates, 10 for the Southern District, 10 for Tai Po District
and seven for Yuen Long District.
The Returning Officer for these elections is the Hon. D.C. Bray,
District Commissioner, New Territories, who will be assisted by staff
of the New Territories Administration.
The elections will be held in accordance with a procedure prescribed
in the Firat Schedule to the Heung Yee Kuk Ordinance, Chapter 109 in the
Laws of Hong Kong. Mectors will vote for their candidates by secret ballot.
/The elections