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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1994
TRANSPARENT VOTER REGISTER FACILITATES PUBLIC SCRUTINY
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AND A IN
FOLLOWING IS A QUESTION BY THE HON HENRY TANG YING-YEN REPLY BY THE SECRETARY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS, MR NICHOLAS NG, THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY):
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTION.
QUESTION : THE BOUNDARY AND ELECTION COMMISSION WILL
BE INTRODUCING NEW REGULATIONS REGARDING REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS FOR
FUNCTIONAL NINE
CONSTITUENCIES IN THE ADDITIONAL
UNDER THESE NEW REGULATIONS,
WILL
THE
1995
BE
ΤΟ ACCORDING
BE
THE THIS
THE PERSONAL PARTICULARS OF REGISTERED ELECTORS CLASSIFIED
THEIR RESPECTIVE FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES, EMPLOYERS AND OTHER GROUPINGS AND WILL
ACCURACY MADE AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION SO THAT THE
BY MONITORED OF THE PARTICULARS OF ELECTORS CAN BE PUBLIC. IN VIEW OF THIS, WILL THE GOVERNMENT INFORM COUNCIL HOW IT CAN ON THE ONE HAND ENCOURAGE THE PUBLIC' TO REGISTER AS FULFIL THEIR CIVIC DUTY AND COME FORWARD TO ELECTORS, AND ON THE OTHER ENSURE THAT IN MAKING PUBLIC THE PERSONAL PARTICULARS OF ELECTORS, THE INDIVIDUAL RIGHT TO PRIVACY IS SAFEGUARDED?
ELECTORS'
REPLY :
MR
THE
PRESIDENT, IN CONNECTION WITH THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TO
BOUNDARY AND ELECTION BE HELD IN SEPTEMBER 1995, ELECTIONS COMMISSION HAS TO DEVISE ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS FOR THE NINE NEW FUNCTIONAL
THE COMMISSION'S CONSTITUENCIES.
AND SIMPLE OBJECTIVE 18 TO MAKE THE REGISTRATION PROCESS AS FRIENDLY AS POSSIBLE, SO AS TO ENCOURAGE AND ENABLE ELIGIBLE TO FULFIL THEIR CIVIC DUTY AND REGISTER AS ELECTORS IN THE ΤΟ ENSURE FCS. ON THE OTHER HAND, THE COMMISSION HAS INFORMATION INCLUDED IN THE VOTER REGISTER IS TRANSPARENT FACILITATE PUBLIC SCRUTINY IN ORDER TO PREVENT ABUSE.
DATE.
REGISTRATION
PROCESS
THE INVOLVES
USER- PERSONS NINE NEW THAT THE ENOUGH TO
REGISTRATION
WITH
THE SIMPLE OFFICER (RO) WRITING TO EMPLOYERS REQUESTING THEM TO PROVIDE HIM THE NAMES AND IDENTITY CARD NUMBERS OF THEIR EMPLOYEES AS OF A CERTAIN EMPLOYERS ABOUT THE RO WOULD ALSO SEEK CONFIRMATION FROM THE THEIR
NOTIFICATION MAIN LINE OF BUSINESS. HE WOULD THEN SEND A
THE GENERAL INFORM ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEES WHO ARE ALREADY REGISTERED ON
NINE NEW ELECTORAL ROLL THAT THEY WOULD BE REGISTERED IN ONE OF THE FCS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE MAIN LINE OF BUSINESS OF THEIR EMPLOYERS.
ΤΟ
CHANGE CHOICE
AN EMPLOYEE WHO RECEIVES A NOTIFICATION CAN DECLARE ANY IN CIRCUMSTANCES, FOR EXAMPLE, CHANGE OF EMPLOYER OR TO MAKE A OF HIS FC IF HE IS ELIGIBLE FOR REGISTRATION IN MORE THAN ONE FC. MAY CHOOSE NOT TO REGISTER AS A FC ELECTOR.
HE
/AS REGARDS