(6) Expenses properly incurred by a Returning Officer in the performance of that Officer’s functions under this Schedule or the Electoral Affairs Commission Ordinance (Cap. 541) are a charge on, and are payable from, the general revenue.
48. Right of appeal to Revising Officer against decisions of Electoral Registration Officer
(1) A person who is dissatisfied with a decision of the Electoral Registration Officer made for the purposes of this Schedule may appeal against the decision to a Revising Officer.
(2) The determination of a Revising Officer on such an appeal is final.
(3) The Electoral Registration Officer, or an Assistant Electoral Registration Officer, is required to appear as the respondent at the hearing of the appeal.
(4) At the hearing of the appeal, the appellant or any other person concerned in the appeal is entitled to appear in person and, whether or not the appellant appears in person, to be represented by a legal practitioner or any other person.
49. Savings and transitional provisions for first subsector provisional register
(1) Subject to subsections (2), (3) and (4), the subsector provisional register to be compiled and published under section 14(1)(a) not later than 30 November 2001 is to be based on—
- (a) the final register of electors for functional constituencies that was published in 2001 under section 32(1) of the Legislative Council Ordinance (Cap. 542); and
- (b) the subsector final register of voters that was published in 2000 under section 10 of Schedule 2 to the Legislative Council Ordinance (Cap. 542) in force immediately before the commencement of section 73 of this Ordinance.
(2) The register referred to in subsection (1)(a)—
- (a) for a functional constituency with the same name as a subsector (except the education functional constituency, the sports, performing arts, culture and publication functional constituency, the tourism functional constituency and the social welfare functional constituency) forms the basis of the subsector provisional register for that subsector;
- (b) for the education functional constituency, in so far as it relates to the names and other relevant particulars of the persons described—
- (i) in section 20E(a) and (b) of the Legislative Council Ordinance (Cap. 542), forms the basis of subsector provisional register for the higher education subsector; and
- (ii) in section 20E(c), (d), (e), (f) and (g) of the Legislative Council Ordinance (Cap. 542), forms the basis of subsector provisional register for the education subsector;
- (c) for the sports, performing arts, culture and publication functional constituency, in so far as it relates to the names and other relevant particulars of the persons described—
- (i) in section 20V(1)(a) and (b) of, and Part 1 of Schedule 1B and items 25, 29, 40, 41, 43, 50, 54 and 59 of Part 3 of Schedule 1B to, the Legislative Council Ordinance (Cap. 542), forms the basis of subsector provisional register for the sports sub-subsector;
- (ii) in section 20V(1)(i) of, and items 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 12, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 34, 39, 42, 44, 45, 46, 47, 49, 52, 55, 56, 57 and 60 of Part 3 of Schedule 1B to, the Legislative Council Ordinance (Cap. 542), forms the basis of subsector provisional register for the performing arts sub-subsector;
- (iii) in section 20V(1)(d) and (e) of, and Part 2 of Schedule 1B and items 6, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 19, 20, 22, 26, 27, 31, 33, 35, 37, 38, 48, 53, 58, 61 and 62 of Part 3 of Schedule 1B to, the Legislative Council Ordinance (Cap. 542), forms the basis of subsector provisional register for the culture sub-subsector; and
- (iv) in section 20V(1)(g), (h), (j) and (k) of, and items 15, 21, 28, 30, 32, 36 and 51 of Part 3 of Schedule 1B to, the Legislative Council Ordinance (Cap. 542), forms the basis of subsector provisional register for the publication subsubsector;
