683 Election Committee members to be elected in April

Thursday, March 12, 1998


A total of 683 members of the Election Committee will be returned from 35 subsectors and the subsector elections will be held on April 2.

These members, together with the ex-officio members and the Religious subsector, which will nominate its representatives, will form a 800-strong Election Committee. The Election Committee will elect 10 Legislative Councillors on May 24.

The number of members to be returned for each of the 35 subsectors will be announced in the gazette tomorrow (Friday).

Following is a list of the subsectors and their respective number of Election Committee members to be returned:

Catering: 11

Employers' Federation of Hong Kong: 11

Hong Kong Chinese Enterprises Association: 11

Hotel: 11

Commercial(first): 12

Commercial(second): 12

Finance: 12

Financial services: 12

Import and export: 12

Industrial(first): 12

Industrial(second): 12

Insurance: 12

Real estate and construction: 12

Textiles and garment: 12

Tourism: 12

Transport: 12

Wholesale and retail: 12

Accountancy: 20

Architectural, surveying and planning: 20

Chinese medicine: 20

Education: 20

Engineering: 20

Health services: 20

Higher education: 20

Information technology: 20

Legal: 20

Medical: 20

Heung Yee Kuk: 21

Provisional District Boards for the Districts in the Urban Council Area ("Hong Kong and Kowloon Provisional District Boards"):21

Provisional District Boards for the Districts in the Regional Council Area ("New Territories Provisional District Boards") : 21

Agriculture and fisheries: 40

Labour: 40

Social Welfare: 40

Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference: 60

Sports, performing arts, culture and publication: 40

For the Sports, performing arts, culture and publication subsector, 10 members of the Election Committee will be returned for each of its four sub-subsectors.

The nomination period for the subsector elections will start tomorrow (Friday) and last up to March 20.

Nomination forms must be handed in to the relevant Returning Officer in person during office hours of the nomination period.

The forms can be obtained from the Returning Officer of the respective subsector; District Offices; the Registration and Electoral Office on the 10th floor of Harbour Centre, 25 Harbour Road, Wan Chai, and the website of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government Information Centre.