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Key to Electoral Qualifications under Section 15 of the Urban Council Ordinance, Chapter 101

Persons either on the list of Special Jurors or the list of Common Jurors prepared in accordance with the provisions of Section 7 of the Jury Ordinance, or who would have been on the list of Special Jurors or the list of Common Jurors save that they had been omitted or removed therefrom merely through mistake in the preparation of such list.

Persons who would have been liable for Jury Service save for being over the age of sixty or being afflicted with deafness, blindness or other such infirmity.

Persons (which expression shall not, however, include a wife whose income is deemed under the Inland Revenue Ordinance to be the income of her husband or who, with respect to business profits tax, is deemed under that Ordinance to be one and the same person as her husband) who had, for each of at least three of the six years of assessment immediately preceding the year of assessment in which the qualifying period commences, paid one or other of the following taxes, that is to say-

(i) salaries tax assessed under Part III of the Inland Revenue Ordinance; or

(ii) business profits tax assessed under Part IV of that Ordinance in respect of any trade, profession or business whether carried on by two or more persons jointly or not and whether such tax was charged or paid in a partnership name or not; or

(iii) tax assessed under Part VII of that Ordinance pursuant to an election for personal assessment;

and, for the purpose of sub-paragraph (ii), payment by a partnership of business profits tax for any year of assessment shall, notwithstanding any agreement between the partners as to the division of the tax amongst themselves or any of them, be taken as sufficient payment of business profits tax for that year by each and every person who was a partner therein at any time during that year.

Members of the Hong Kong Auxiliary Police Force, Defence Force or Auxiliary Services, or locally enlisted members of the regular armed forces of the Crown.

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(i) serving in a civil capacity under the Government on the permanent establishment of the Colony holding a pensionable

office within the meaning of the Pensions Ordinance; or

(ii) in receipt of a pension granted under the Pensions Ordinance or any Ordinance repealed thereby, or who would have been in receipt of such a pension if it had not been suspended under Section 11 of the Pensions Ordinance or ceased under Section 13 of that Ördinance.

Barristers or solicitors qualified to practise or act as such under the Legal Practitioners Ordinance and in actual practice, and clerks of any such barrister or solicitor.

Registered medical practitioners within the meaning of the Medical Registration Ordinance.

Registered dentists within the meaning of the Dentists Registration Ordinance.

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Members of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons of Great Britain.

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Managing directors or editors, or sub-editors, reporters, photographers, commentators, producers or announcers, of—

(i) any periodical local newspaper or news agency registered under the Control of Publications Consolidation Ordinance;

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(ii) any other newspaper or news agency, being a newspaper or news agency not required to be registered under the afore-

said Ordinance, or any periodical publication other than a newspaper; or

(iii) any broadcasting service licensed as such under the Telecommunication Ordinance or the Television Ordinance; or (iv) any other broadcasting service being a service not required to be licensed as such under either of the Ordinance specified

in sub-paragraph (iii);

employed on the full-time staff of such newspapers, news agency, publication or broadcasting service.

Registered pharmacists within the meaning of the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, actually carrying on business as such,

(i) full-time clergymen, priests, ministers or monks of any religious congregation and functioning as such in the Colony;

or

(ii) in the case of women, vowed and full-time members of any religious order living in a convent or other such religious

community.

Holders of--

(i) a senior commercial pilot's licence,

(ii) a commercial pilot's licence,

(iii) an airline transport pilot's licence,

(iv) a flight navigator's licence, or

(v) a flight engineer's licence,

granted under article 16 of the Colonial Air Navigation Order 1961.

Holders of a certificate of competency as Master, First Mate, Second Mate, First Engineer or Second Engineer—

(i) granted in the United Kingdom under the Merchant Shipping Acts as defined in Section 2 of the Merchant Shipping

Ordinance, or in the Colony under Section 6 of that Ordinance; or

(ii) which, by Order in Council under Section 102 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894, of England, is of the same force

as if it had been granted under that Act.

Holders of a First or Second Class certificate of competency in radio-telegraphy issued by the Telecommunications Authority under the Telecommunication Ordinance,

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