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Restaurant workers registered as electors

Civic-mindedness is on full display today (Monday) when dozens.of restaurant workers queued up to register to vote.

Invited by a Shau Kei Wan restaurant, staff of the Registration and Electoral Office (REO) and the Eastern District Office set up a special voter registration counter at the restaurant and conducted on-the-spot voter registration for the workers.

These workers, once registered, will be able to cast two votes in the September Legislative Council elections, one in a geographical constituency and the other in the new Hotels and Catering functional constituency.

A spokesman for the REO reminded those who wished to be eligible to vote in the coming Legislative Council elections that registration applications must be submitted before June 1 for inclusion in this year's Electoral Roll.

Combined registration forms will be sent next month via employers to most of the working persons who are eligible but have not yet registered as electors.

"By filling in the form, they can apply for registration as an elector in both a geographical constituency and one of the nine new functional constituencies," he said,

For working persons who are already registered as electors in a geographical constituency, most of them will receive a notification from the REO inviting them to be registered in one of the nine new functional constituencies according to their employer's principal business.

Arrangements will be made for them to be registered if they have no

objection.

The spokesman said self-employed persons, and other eligible persons who had not yet received a notification from the REO by April 15, could obtain a voter registration form from over 1,500 outlets throughout the territory.