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The Home Affairs Department appealed to registered electors to exercise their right to vote in the Village Representative By-elections to be held this Sunday (January 17).
Twenty Village Representative vacancies are open in the by-elections and 21 valid nominations were received during the nomination period.
Of them, 17 candidates were returned uncontested in their Villages to fill nine Indigenous Inhabitant Representative and eight Resident Representative vacancies. As there are two candidates running for the Resident Representative post of Nam Wai of Sai Kung Rural Committee and the Indigenous Inhabitant Representative post of Ma Wan Main Street of Ma Wan Rural Committee, polling will be held for the two Villages. As no valid nomination was received for Ma Tseuk Leng Ha, another by-election will be arranged later.
The list of valid nominations is as follows:
Resident Representatives:
Village Name
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Wo Keng Shan Lau Woon-shiu (uncontested)
Nam Wai* Shing Kwan-on; Yau Tat-choi, Raymond
Tsam Chuk Wan Li Wai-hung (uncontested)
Tai Lam Liu Lau Hon-sang (uncontested)
Kei Ling Ha Lo Wai Ho Kwok-hei, Billy (uncontested)
Ping Chau Sha Tau Tse Ka-chun (uncontested)
A Shan Lam Kam-wah (uncontested)
San Tau Kok Tsang Man-hing (uncontested)
Tsuen Tsz Wai To Kai-yin (uncontested)
Indigenous Inhabitant Representatives:
Village Name
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Tam Shui Hang Wan Sun-yau (uncontested)
Wa Shan Tsuen Liu Chuen-cheong (uncontested)
Ha Wo Che Cheung Wai-keung (uncontested)
Tai Lam Liu Lau Man-sang (uncontested)
Ping Chau Chau Tau Chan Moon (uncontested)
To Kwa Peng Cheng Kwok-fai (uncontested)
Lung Mei Cheung Kwok-wah (uncontested)
Tai Om Cheung Wai-keung (uncontested)
Ma Wan Main Street* Lam Lap-kee; Tsang Hin-fai,
Benton
Shui Tsan Tin Tsuen Cheung Hok-lin (uncontested)
(* polling required)
Polling will be held from noon to 7pm on January 17. Electors are required to bring along their identity documents to the designated polling station as specified in the relevant polling notice.
Electors for the Resident Representative By-election for Nam Wai are urged to note that if they no longer reside in the village, or their registered addresses are no longer their principal residential addresses, they are disqualified from being the electors. It is an offence if they cast their votes in the by-election.
Arrangements will be made to facilitate remanded persons and detainees who are registered electors to cast their votes in the by-elections.
Arrangements will be made for electors who are remanded or detained by law enforcement agencies (other than the Correctional Services Department) to cast their votes at the dedicated polling station located at Mei Tin Community Hall, 9 Mei Mun Lane, Tai Wai, Sha Tin, New Territories. The polling hours are from noon to 7pm.
If necessary, 24 reserved dedicated polling stations set up in penal institutions will be open for voting from 1pm to 4pm for electors under the custody of the Correctional Services Department.
For further information, please visit the Village Representative Elections' website www.had.gov.hk/vre or call 2152 1521.
Ends/Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Issued at HKT 17:15
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