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NOMINATION

FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1991

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FOR UC/RC ELECTIONS STARTS MONDAY

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NOMINATION OF

CANDIDATES FOR THE URBAN COUNCIL

AND REGIONAL LAST FOR

COUNCIL. ELECTIONS WILL BEGIN ON MONDAY (MARCH 11) AND WILL TWO WEEKS UNTIL MARCH 25, THE SECRETARY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS, MR MICHAEL SUEN, SAID TODAY (FRIDAY).

SPEAKING AT A PRESS CONFERENCE MR SUEN SAID CANDIDATES WOULD BE 15 IN THE URBAN COUNCIL CONTESTING 27 SINGLE-SEAT CONSTITUENCIES AREA AND 12 THE REGIONAL COUNCIL AREA.

"WITH

SATISFACTORY THE

CONCLUSION

OF THE DISTRICT BOARD

ELECTIONS LAST SUNDAY, HONG KONG STARTS PREPARING FOR THE SECOND MAJOR ELECTION OF THE YEAR, WHICH WILL BE HELD ON MAY 5 (SUNDAY)," HE SAID.

"ANY REGISTERED ELECTOR WHO HAS BEEN ORDINARILY KONG

PRECEDING FOR THE

IMMEDIATELY 10 YEARS

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RESIDENT IN NOMINATION HONG

TO STAND FOR ELECTION. HE OR SHE CAN BE NOMINATED FOR QUALIFIED CONSTITUENCY, MR SUEN SAID.

IS ANY

AND

門

BACH NOMINATION HAS TO BE SUBSCRIBED BY A PROPOSER, A SECONDER TO BE ALL THESE 10 SUBSCRIBERS HAVE ANOTHER EIGHT NOMINATORS.

THE CANDIDATE IS REGISTERED ELECTORS IN THE CONSTITUENCY IN WHICH

AS SEEKING ELECTION. EACH SUBSCRIBER MAY ONLY NOMINATE ONE CANDIDATE

HE ADDED. ALL CONSTITUENCIES ARE SINGLE-SEATED,

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BEFORE LODGING HIS NOMINATION PAPER, A CANDIDATE HAD TO PLACE A REFUNDED IF DEPOSIT OF $5,000 WITH THE TREASURY AND THIS WOULD BE HE POLLED NOT LESS THAN FIVE PER CENT OF THE VALID VOTES CAST.

NOMINATION

BE OBTAINED

FROM

FORMS THE

GUIDANCE NOTES FOR AND

AND DISTRICT OFFICES

CANDIDATES COULD

REGISTRATION THE

AND

ELECTORAL OFFICE.

THE

"COMPLETED CANDIDATE OR

RETURNING

OFFICER

NOMINATION PAPERS MUST BE LODGED IN

HIS PROPOSER OF OR ASSISTANT

PERSON BY

SECONDER

THE WITH OFFICER. RETURNING

RESPECTIVE THE DISTRICT

OFFICERS

ARE

OFFICERS RETURNING THE

FOR

IN THE ELECTION

THEIR

RESPECTIVE DISTRICTS HE SAID.

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MR SUKN SAID THE MAXIMUM LIMIT FOR ELECTION EXPENSES FOR ELECTIONS HAD BEEN INCREASED FROM $13,000 TO $70,000 TO KEEP UP INFLATION.

THESE WITH

"

'BOTH THE URBAN COUNCIL AND REGIONAL COUNCIL, ARE STATUTORY

BETWEEN THEM THEY PROVIDE A VARIETY OF FINANCIALLY AUTONOMOUS BODIES. PUBLIC HEALTH, CULTURAL AND LEISURE SERVICES TO THE ENTIRE OF HONG KONG,

AND

POPULATION

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MORE "THESE SERVICES NOT ONLY ENSURE A CLEANER, HEALTHIER AND

OPPORTUNITIES FOR A ATTRACTIVE LIVING ENVIRONMENT BUT ALSO CREATE

MR SUEN SAID. RICHER AND BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE,

/MR SUEN