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Nominations for District Councils subsectors of Election Committee Subsector Elections open tomorrow
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     Nominations for the Hong Kong and Kowloon District Councils subsector and the New Territories District Councils subsector of the 2011 Election Committee Subsector Elections will start tomorrow (November 18) and run until November 24.

     "A nominee must be an elected District Council member whose term of office will commence on January 1, 2012. Details on the qualification and disqualification for nomination as a candidate are respectively set out in section 17 and sections 18, 18A and 18C of the Schedule to the Chief Executive Election Ordinance," a spokesman for the Registration and Electoral Office (REO) said today (November 17).

     "A nomination form must be subscribed by not less than five voters registered for the District Councils subsector concerned. District Council members newly elected this month have been registered automatically as voters for the relevant District Councils subsectors. If an elected District Council member has earlier nominated candidates in the non-District Council subsectors, he can no longer nominate a candidate in the District Councils subsectors. If he has been nominated as a candidate in the non-District Council subsectors, he cannot accept nomination in the District Councils subsectors," he said.

     The completed nomination form and an election deposit of $1,000 must be submitted by the nominee in person to the Returning Officer within the nomination period. Nominations are accepted between 9am and 5pm from Monday to Friday and from 9am to noon on Saturday during the nomination period. The contact details of the Returning Officer are available on the election website (www.elections.gov.hk).

     Nomination forms can be downloaded from the election website or are available at the District Offices, the offices of the Returning Officers and the REO office at 10/F, Harbour Centre, 25 Harbour Road, Wan Chai.

     For the Hong Kong and Kowloon District Councils subsector and the New Territories District Councils subsector, a poll will be held on December 11 if there is a contested election for that subsector.

     For enquiries, please call the election hotline on 2891 1001.

Ends/Thursday, November 17, 2011
Issued at HKT 18:22

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