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1985 Ed.]

Legislative Council (Electoral Provisions) (Registration of Electors and Appointment of Authorized Representatives) Regulations

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16. Applications under regulation 14 for inclusion in the final register in any year shall be made available for inspection in the registration officer's office during office hours on any working day until 6 July in that year.

17. (1) Any person who considers that any other person-

(a) who has applied under regulation 14 in any year to have that latter person's name included in the final register; or

(b) whose name appears in a provisional register in any year,

is not entitled to be registered as an elector may object to the inclusion of such name in the final register for that year by lodging, either in person or by post, with the registration officer, on or before 6 July in that year, a notice of objection in the specified form duly completed in either English or Chinese.

(2) The registration officer may call upon any person lodging a notice of objection under paragraph (1) to provide proof of identity by such means as the registration officer considers expedient.

18. (1) Where the registration officer receives a notice of objection under regulation 17 relating to the inclusion of a name in the final register for any year, he shall forthwith-

(a) refer the objection to the revising officer for determination; and

(b) obtain from him a date, being a date during the period commencing on 8 July in that year and ending on 18 July next following, and a time and place for the hearing by the revising officer of the objection,

and shall thereupon notify in writing both the person objecting and the person to whom such objection relates-

(i) that the objection has been referred to the revising officer for determination on the date and at the time and place specified in the notification (being the date, time and place obtained under sub-paragraph (b)); and

(ii) that the person objecting and such other person may each appear either in person or by any other person on his or its behalf before the revising officer and be heard on the date and at the time and place so specified, or (whether he or it appears or not) make written representations to reach the revising officer, at an address stated in such notification, before the date so specified, and obtain the determination of the revising officer on such objection.

(2) Every such objection shall be considered by the revising officer who shall give his determination thereon, and where the person objecting or the other person to whom such objection relates does not appear either in person or by any other person on his or its

[Subsidiary]

Inspection of applications.

Notices of objection.

Procedure on objections.