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Enquiry letters have been sent by registered mail to the last known residential address of these electors and, where applicable, their business address, seeking updated information. The spokesman reminded those who had not responded to these letters should do so immediately.
If there are no replies from them by June 1, their names would, in accordance with the law, be included in the proposed omission list in the Provisional Register to be published before June 22.
Unless they raise a successful claim with the Revising Officer in accordance with the relevant statutory procedures, their names would be excluded from the 1996 final register to be published before August 8.
"Updating of our voter register relies, to a large extent, on the initiative of the electors themselves to report any changes of their particulars to us.
"Electors are requested to report any such changes to the REO promptly," said the spokesman, urging eligible persons to register as electors.
Voter registration forms are available at REO on the 10th floor, Harbour Centre, Harbour Road, Wan Chai, and they can also be obtained at district offices, housing estate offices, post offices, tertiary education institutions, secondary schools. and youth centres.
For those who have not yet registered to be included in the 1996 register, their completed voter registration forms must reach REO on or before the June 1 deadline.
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Efforts to speed up restaurant licensing
The Buildings Department has set up a special team of staff to speed up the vetting of premises proposed to be used as restaurants.
It is expected that all the outstanding applications for restaurant licence, currently standing at some 700, will be processed by the Department by the end of July this year. A total of 27 professional and technical officers have been temporarily redeployed from other units to assist the 11 officers in the Licensing Unit.
The acting Assistant Director of Buildings (Specialist), Mr Leung Shiu-hong, said today (Sunday) that the Department was determined to speed up the process.