Public consultation on Legislative Council Election proposed guidelines commences (with photos/video)
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The Electoral Affairs Commission (EAC) today (July 3) released the proposed guidelines on election-related activities in respect of the Legislative Council (LegCo) Election for public consultation. The consultation will last for 30 days until August 1.
The 2025 LegCo General Election will be held on December 7. Before each general election, the EAC will review and update the guidelines.
The Chairman of the EAC, Mr Justice David Lok, said at a press conference today, "These guidelines aim to explain in simple language the provisions under current electoral legislation with a view to reminding candidates and other relevant persons of the regulations and requirements of the electoral legislation; and to promulgate a code of conduct based on the fair and equal treatment principles in respect of election-related activities which are not covered by the legislation."
The proposed guidelines are prepared on the basis of the current guidelines for the LegCo Election (October 2021 edition), with appropriate amendments which are mainly composed of four categories: (1) to reflect the amended electoral legislation, such as the procedures if electronic counting arrangements are adopted in functional constituency elections; (2) to reflect the latest electoral arrangements and facilitation measures, for instance, electors could log on to an online system to check information such as their allocated polling stations, and candidates could submit election forms via electronic means, etc; (3) to further elaborate the contents of the guidelines to enable candidates and other relevant persons to have a clearer understanding of the areas which they should pay attention to; and (4) to align with the amendments already made to the other guidelines on election-related activities.
Mr Justice Lok said, "To enable the public to better understand the requirements of the relevant electoral legislation and the code of conduct formulated by the EAC for the conduct of election-related activities, we have also enhanced the proposed guidelines by, for example, explaining the relevant electoral arrangements in the form of tables, consolidating the contents of the chapters, etc, with a view to making the proposed guidelines more concise and easy to comprehend."
The proposed guidelines can be downloaded from the EAC website (www.eac.hk), or viewed at the Registration and Electoral Office, the Home Affairs Enquiry Centres of all district offices and the major and district public libraries.
Members of the public are welcome to make written representations on the proposed guidelines to the EAC Secretariat by email (eacenq@eac.hk), post (8/F, Treasury Building, 3 Tonkin Street West, Cheung Sha Wan, Kowloon) or fax (2511 1682) on or before August 1. For representations submitted by post, the postmark date will be taken as the submission date. Late submissions will not be considered.
The EAC will hold a public forum from 7pm to 9pm on July 18 (Friday) at the School Hall, 4/F, Kowloon Tong Government Primary School, 6 Tim Fuk Road, Kowloon Tong. Members of the public are welcome to attend to express views. The last admission time of the public forum is 8pm.
For enquiries, please call 2891 1001.
Ends/Thursday, July 3, 2025
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Press conference on proposed guidelines on election-related activities in respect of Legislative Council Election for public consultation