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Election nomination due to start
Nomination of candidates for the Legislative Council elections in September will start on Tuesday (August 1) and last until August 14.
Nomination must be handed in by the candidate in person to the Returning Officer or Assistant Returning Officer for the constituency concerned during office hours on any day other than a general holiday or a Saturday.
A spokesman for the Registration and Electoral Office (REO) said today (Sunday) that candidates were encouraged to submit their nominations well before the expiry of the two-week nomination period to allow time for any error in their nomination papers to be corrected.
He also reminded candidates who intended to submit a nomination paper on the last few days of the nomination period to include more than the minimum required number of subscribers in his nomination paper.
"This would avoid the risk of invalidation of the nomination should one or more of the subscribers be subsequently found not to be qualified as subscribers," he said.
Nomination papers of the geographical constituency (GC) and new functional constituency (FC) candidates must be subscribed by 50 electors registered for relevant GC or new FC.
Nomination for Election Committee constituency (ECC), Urban Council or Regional Council constituencies requires subscription by five electors of the relevant constituency.
For the other old FCs, 10 subscribers of the relevant FC are needed.
Each nomination paper must be submitted together with an election deposit of $20,000. Candidates are encouraged to pay their election deposit by crossed cheque or cashier order.
In the event that a cheque is dishonoured, the nomination will be ruled invalid unless the deposit is made good before the expiry of the nomination period, the spokesman said.
To qualify for nomination, a candidate must:
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