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(Cap. 3).

(Cap. 112, 1956 Rapela).

before the revising officer, by the revising officer. until the contrary is shown to his satisfaction, that such person was lawfully entitled to be registered on that register and on every preceding final register on which bis name appeared; and

(1) where it is shown to the satisfaction of the registration officer or, in proceedings before the revising officer, to the satisfaction of the revising officer that a person was not lawfully entitled to be registered on any preceding final register on which his name appeared, such person sball nevertheless be deemed to be entitled under this paragraph to be registered on the register to be compiled as aforesaid if he shows to the salis- faction of the registration officer or, in proceedings before the revising officer, to the satisfaction of the revising officer that, in respect of any sub- sequent final register on which his name appeared, he was lawfully entitled to be registered as an elector otherwise than by virtue of the operation of this paragraph; or

(b) be satisfies the requirements of subsection (2).

(2) In respect of any register of electors, a person shall satisfy the requirements of this subsection within the mean- ing of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) if, at any time during the qualifying period for registration as an elector on that register, he-

(a) was either on the list of special jurors or the list of common jurors prepared in accordance with the provisions of section 8 of the Jury Ordinance, or would have been on the list of special jurors or the list of common jurors save that he had been omitted or removed therefrom merely through mistake in the preparation of such list; or

(b) would have been liable for jury service save for being over the age of sixty or being afflicted with deafness, blindness or other such infirmity, or (c) was a person (which expression shall not, however, include a wife whose income is deemed under the Inland Revenue Ordinance to be the income of ber husband or who, with respect to business

(Cap. 89),

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profits tax, is deemed under that Ordinance to be one and the same person as her husband) who had. for each of at least three of the six years of assess- ment immediately preceding the year of the asseRS- ment in which the qualifying period commences. paid one or other of the following taxes, that is to say--

(1) salaries tax assessed under Part III of the Inland Revenue Ordinance;

(ii) business profits tax assessed under Part IV of that Ordinance in respect of any trade pro- fession or business whether carried on by two or more persons jointly or not and whether such tax was charged or paid in a partnership name or not;

or

(ii) tax assessed under Part VII of that Ordin- ance pursuant to an election for personal assess- ment; and, for the purposes of sub-paragraph (ü), payment by a partnership of business profits tax for any year of assessment shall, notwithstanding any agreement between the partners as to the division of the tax amongst themselves or any of them, be taken as sufficient payment of businesu profits tex for that year by each and every person who was a partner therein at any time during that year; or

(d) was

(i) a member of the Hong Kong Auxiliary Police Force; or

(i) a member of the Defence Force or Auxil- iary Services; or

(iii) a locally enlisted member of the regular armed forces of the Crown; or

(e) was-

(D) a person serving in a civil capacity under the Government on the permanent establishment of the Colony holding a pensionable office within the meaning of the Pensions Ordinance; or

(ii) în receipt of a pension granted under the Pensions Ordinance or any Ordinance repealed thereby, or would have been in receipt of such a