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Clause 17 provides for the coming into force of a final

register of electors and permits the registration officer

to correct any minor errors in that register. Clause 18

provides for the appointment of a revising officer to hear

appeals from the decisions of the registration officer.

Clause 19 provides that the Governor in Council may make

regulations relating to the registration of electors,

the form of the registers etc.

9. Part V (clauses 20 to 22) deals with the

qualifications for candidature and election of members.

10. Clause 20 provides that a candidate must be

registered as an elector under the Electoral Provisions

Ordinance and, in the case of functional constituency,

that he must have a substantial connexion with that

constituency. A residential qualification of 10 years is

also required. Clause 21 sets out the various means by

which a person is disqualified from being nominated as

a candidate or continuing to hold office if he is

already elected (e.g. by being convicted of treason or

becoming bankrupt). Clause 22 provides that a person

shall not be nominated in an election as a candidate

for more than one constituency.

11.

Part VI (clauses 23 to 28) deals with elections.

12. Clause 23 provides that the Governor may appoint

a returning officer and assistnat returning officers for

each constituency. Clause 24 casts on the returning

officer the duty of supervising elections. Clause 25

provides that minor contraventions of electoral