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PART VI
ELECTIONS
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Saving
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Returning officer and staff
Supervision of elections
Presumption of validity of election
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Penalties concerning supervision of elections
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Power to make regulations in respect of Part VI
PART VII
ELECTION PETITIONS
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Power to question election by petition
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Who may present election petition
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Who may be respondent
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Jurisdiction of the Court in respect of election petition
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Time within which election petition shall be presented
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Security for costs
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Determination of Court
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Withdrawal of election petition; substitution of new petitioner
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Abatement of election petition
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Withdrawal and substitution of respondent
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Validation of acts done pending election petition
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Vacancy where candidate not duly elected or election void
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PART VIII
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
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Secrecy of vote
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Governor may give directions
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Forms
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Proceedings against persons on grounds of disqualification
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Time limit for laying complaint or information
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Amendment of Schedules
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First Schedule.
Electoral college constituencies
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Functional constituencies
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A BILL
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Provide for the election of persons to be elected Members of the Legislative Council
and for matters incidental thereto.
Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.
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PART I
PRELIMINARY
This Ordinance may be cited as the Legislative Council (Electoral Provi- Short title. sions) Ordinance 1985.
2. (1) In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—- "constituency" means an electoral college constituency or a functional constituency; "Court" means the High Court;
"elected Member" means a person elected under this Ordinance to be an elected
Member of the Legislative Council;
"election" means an election of a person to be an elected Member;
"election petition" means an election petition presented under Part VII;
Interpretation.
"elector" (except when used in relation to the Electoral Provisions Ordinance) means (Cap. 367.)
a person registered in a final register under this Ordinance who is not disqualified from being registered or from voting at an election;
"electoral college constituency" means an electoral college constituency referred to in
section 4;
"eligible person", in relation to a constituency, means a person who is entitled to be
registered as an elector in that constituency;
"final register", in relation to any election, means the final register compiled and published under this Ordinance in respect of every constituency and in force on the date of the election;
"functional constituency” means a functional constituency referred to in section 4; "identity card" means an identity card issued under the Registration of Persons (Cap. 177.)
Ordinance;
"register" means a register of electors compiled under this Ordinance in respect of
every constituency;
"registered" means registered in the final register;
"Registrar" means the Registrar of the Supreme Court;
"registration officer" means any of the following--
(a) the person appointed under section 16 to be the registration officer;
(b) any person appointed under that section to be an assistant registration
officer;
"returning officer" means any of the following-
(a) the person appointed under section 23 to be a returning officer;
(b) any person appointed under that section to be an assistant returning officer; "revising officer” means the revising officer appointed under section 18; "specified form” means a form specified under section 43.
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