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[Subsidiary]

CAP. 381 Legislative Council (Electoral Provisions)

(Procedure) Regulations

[1988 Ed.

PART III

NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES

Requirements for nomination as a candidate

5. Subject to regulations 6 and 7, a candidate shall be nominated in a nomination paper in Form 2 in the First Schedule delivered in person by the candidate, or by any person who has subscribed the nomination paper as proposer or seconder, to the returning officer at the specified address before the expiration of the nomination period.

Subscription of nomination paper

6. (1) The nomination paper of a candidate for election in a constituency shall be subscribed by 2 electors registered in that constituency as proposer and seconder respectively and-

(a) in the case of an election to an electoral college constituency, by 3 other electors registered in that constituency as assenting to the nomination; or

(b) in the case of an election to a functional constituency, by 8 other electors registered in that constituency as assenting to the nomination. (2) During the nomination period, the returning officer shall permit any person to inspect, at the specified address, any nomination paper delivered to the returning officer.

(3) The returning officer may at the request of any elector prepare a nomination paper for signature.

(4) No person shall at any election subscribe more nomination papers than there are vacancies to be filled for the constituency concerned.

(5) Where an elector subscribes nomination papers in contravention of subregulation (4), only those nomination papers (up to the permitted number) which are first delivered shall be valid.

(6) In the case of an elector other than an individual, the subscription of the nomination paper by that elector shall be effected by that elector's authorized representative.

Consent and deposit

7. A person shall not be validly nominated as a candidate unless there is delivered to the returning officer at the specified address before the expiration of the nomination period-

(a) his consent to nomination and declaration of qualification signed by him in the presence of a witness (who shall also sign) in Form 3 in the First Schedule; and

(b) a receipt issued by the Director of Accounting Services showing that a deposit of $4,000 has been lodged with the Director of Accounting Services in respect of the nomination of such person. (L.N. 190(88)

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