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TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1988

NOMINATIONS OPEN FOR DB ELECTIONS

NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES FOR THE 1988 DISTRICT BOARD WILL BEGIN ON FRIDAY (JANUARY 8) AND LAST UNTIL FEBRUARY 1.

ELECTIONS

DEPUTY SECRETARY FOR DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION, MR BOWEN LEUNG, URGED PEOPLE WHO ARE KEEN ON SERVING THE COMMUNITY TO COME FORWARD CANDIDATES.

A SPEAKING AT THE 19

TOWARDS

MR

AS

PRESS CONFERENCE TODAY (TUESDAY),

LEUNG

DISTRICT BOARDS FOR

MADE HAVING

IMPORTANT IMPROVING THE LIVING ENVIRONMENT AND CULTIVATING COMMUNITY SPIRIT IN THE DISTRICTS OVER THE PAST YEARS.

PRAISED CONTRIBUTIONS

READILY ACCESSIBLE AND THEIR VIEWS ON DISTRICT

A "THE DISTRICT BOARDS HAVE PROVIDED

ΤΟ VOICE EFFECTIVE CHANNEL FOR RESIDENTS MATTERS AND MAJOR TERRITORY-WIDE ISSUES, HE SAID.

"THE COMING

DISTRICT BOARD

"

ELECTIONS PRESENT A VALUABLE

ΤΟ SERVING THE COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITY FOR THOSE WHO ARE DEVOTED TAKE PART IN THE WORK OF DISTRICT BOARDS, HE ADDED.

ΤΟ

264 ELECTED SEATS WOULD HAVE TWO

BE MR LEUNG POINTED OUT THAT THERE WOULD SPREADING OUT IN THE 157 CONSTITUENCIES OF WHICH 107 VACANCIES WHILE THE REMAINING 50 ARE SINGLE-SEATED.

THE DISTRICT OFFICER OF EACH DISTRICT HAS BEEN APPOINTED TO

OFFICER FOR HIS ACT AS THE RETURNING

THEY DISTRICT.

WILL ACCEPT THE OFFICE HOURS ON ANY NOMINATIONS DURING

WORKING

DAY. EXCEPT SATURDAY, THROUGHOUT THE NOMINATION PERIOD.

ANY REGISTERED ELECTOR WHO HAS RESIDED IN HONG KONG FOR THE 10 YEARS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE DATE OF HIS NOMINATION IS ELIGIBLE

HE CAN STAND FOR TO BE NOMINATED,

CONSTITUENCIES, BUT CONSTITUENCY.

A

CANDIDATE

HE CANNOT BE

ELECTION IN NOMINATED FOR

157 ANY OF THE MORE THAN ONE

BY

WILL NEED TO BE NOMINATED

10 ELECTORS, WHICH INCLUDING ONE PROPOSER AND ONE SECONDER, IN THE CONSTITUENCY IN HE SEEKS ELECTION.

MAKE A THE NOMINATION PAPER OR BY HIS PROPOSER OR

HE MUST ALSO SIGNIFY HIS CONSENT TO THE NOMINATION AND DECLARATION OF QUALIFICATION BEFORE SUBMITTING TO THE RETURNING OFFICER EITHER PERSONALLY, SECONDER.

BEFORE

DELIVERING HIS

NOMINATION

THE RETURNING

DEPOSIT OF

ΤΟ PAPER

ELECTION PLACE AN

OFFICER, THE CANDIDATE IS REQUIRED TO $2,000 WITH THE TREASURY WHICH WILL BE RETURNED TO THE CANDIDATE IF HE VOTES CAST, EVEN 1F HE IS NOT POLLS MORE THAN ONE-EIGHTH OF THE ELECTED.

DOES NOT RXCEED IF THE NUMBER OF CANDIDATES VACANCIES FOR A CONSTITUENCY, SUCH CANDIDATE(S) WILL HAVING BEEN ELECTED AND NO VOTING WILL TAKE PLACE.

THE

BE

NUMBER OF DECLARED

AS

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