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(ii) the Hong Kong Chinese School certificate;

(ii) matriculation for the University of Hong Kong or The Chinese University of Hong Kong:

(iv) the Hong Kong Certificate of Education (English) with Grade E or a higher grade in at least five subjects, or Grade D or a higher grade in at least four subjects, or Grade C or a higher grade in at least three subjects:

(v) the Hong Kong Certificate of Education (Chinese) with Grade E or a higher grade in at least five subjects, or Grade D or a higher grade in at least four subjects, or Grade C or a higher grade in at least three subjects;

(vi) the General Certificate of Education with passes in at least three subjects at 'O' or a higher level or with passes in at least two subjects at 'A' or a higher level;

(vii) the University of Hong Kong Advanced Level Examina- tion with passes in at least two subjects;

(vii) any diploma of certificate granted or issued by the University of Hong Kong or The Chinese University of Hong Kong, other than a certificate merely indicating attendance at any lecture or course and other than a diploma or certificate granted or issued by, or in respect of any course conducted by, the extra-mural department of either of such universities;

(x) any diploma or certificate granted or issued by the Hong Kong Polytechnic or the Hong Kong Technical College on the completion of any full-time course, other than a certificate mercly indicating attendance at such a course;

(x) any diploma or certificate granted or issued by the Hong Kong Polytechnic or the Hong Kong Technical College op the completion of any part-time course of at least three year's dura- tion, being a course for which the completion of Form 4 studies was a required entry qualification at the time when the person concemed commençed such course.

(3) The registration officer may register as an elector on any register to be compiled pursuant to paragraph 7, any person who possesses educational qualifications which, in the opinion of the registration officer, are equivalent to those mentioned in sub-paragraph (2)w)

(4) The Governor in Council in his absolute discretion may, by order, add to the professional institutions and bodies specified in the Table to this Schedule the name of any professional institution or body, whether British or foreign and whether similar to any of the institutions and bodies specified therein or not.

(5) The qualifying perlod for registration as an elector on any register to be compiled pursuant to paragraph 7 shall-

(a) in the case of a provisional register, be the period commencing on the 15th day of February and ending on the 15th day of June of the year in which such register is to be compiled as aforesaid, and

(b) in the case of a final register, be the period commencing on the 15th day of February and ending on the 15th day of June at the year immediately preceding the year in which such register will come into force under paragraph 7(2),

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3. No person shall be entitled to be registered as an elector on any register to be compiled pursuant to paragraph 7 unless he has ordinarily resided in the Colony for the three years immediately pre- ceding

(a) in the case of a person whose name does not appear on the last previous final register compiled pursuant to paragraph 1–

( the date of his Application for registration as an elector, being an application duty made during the qualifying period for registration on the register to be compiled as aforesaid; or

(ii) as regarda a person applying for registration as an elector after the expiry of the qualifying period for registration on the register to be compiled as aforesaid, the last day of that qualify- ing period:

(b) in the case of a person whose name appears on the Jast previous Anal register compiled pursuant to paragraph 7, the first day of the qualifying period for registration on the register to be compiled as aforesaid,

(1) No person shall be entitled to be registered as an (kolor on any register to be compiled pursuant to paragraph 7 or, even if registered, to vote at the election of members of the Council who-

(a) either has no attained the age of twenty-one years according To the Gregorian calendar, that is to say, by Western reckoning. or will not have attained that age before the expiration of the qualifying period for registration on such register, or

(6) has in any Commonwealth country been sentenced to death or imprisonment (by whatever name called) for a term cxceeding six months and has not wither suffered the punishment to which he was sentenced or such other punishment as may by com petent authority have been substituted therefor or received a free pardod; or

(e) is under any law in force in the Colony found or declared

to be of unsound mind or adjudged to be a lunatic: or

(d) is a member of the regular armed forces of the Crown (which expression, however, shall be deemed not to include locally enlisted personnel of the said armed forces).

(2) A person registered as an elector on the final register of electors in force on the date of the election of any ordinary nerober of the Council shall not be excluded from voting at that election on the ground That by virtue of sub-paragraph (I), he is not entitled to vote at that election: but this sub-paragraph shall not prevent the rejection of the vote by the Court on an election petition under Part IV of this Schedule or affect his liability to any penalty for voting.

$. (1) The following persona are disqualified from being registered as electors or, even if registered, from voting at an election of members of the Council held within seven years from the date of conviction-

(a) any person convicted of a corrupt practice or of an illegal practice within the meaning of the Corrupt and Illegal Practices Ordinance, other than the illegal practice consisting of a con- travention of any of the provisions of section 19(2) of that

Residental qualification.

Duquabeadon by

ELALUE.

Tempechry desaanutention.

(CAR. 280.)