### Legislative Council Ordinance 《立法會條例》

75. Appointment of Electoral Registration Officer and assistants
(1) The Chief Executive must appoint an Electoral Registration Officer and such number of Assistant Electoral Registration Officers as appears to the Chief Executive to be necessary for the purposes of registering persons as electors at elections to return Members. (Amended 21 of 2001 s. 68)
(2) The Electoral Registration Officer has such functions and duties as are conferred or imposed on that Officer by or under this Ordinance.
(3) An Assistant Electoral Registration Officer may, with the authority of the Electoral Registration Officer, exercise and perform the functions and duties of Electoral Registration Officer.
(4) The Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs must publish in the Gazette notice of the appointment of a person as Electoral Registration Officer and the Officer’s address. (Amended L.N. 130 of 2007)
(5) The Government must ensure that the Electoral Registration Officer is provided with such staff as that Officer requires in order to exercise and perform that Officer’s functions and duties under this Ordinance.
(6) Expenses properly incurred by the Electoral Registration Officer in the exercise or performance of that Officer’s functions or duties under this Ordinance or the Electoral Affairs Commission Ordinance (Cap. 541) are a charge on, and are payable from, the general revenue.

Editorial Note:
For the saving and transitional provisions relating to the amendments made by the Resolution of the Legislative Council (L.N. 130 of 2007), see paragraph (12) of that Resolution.

76. Electoral Registration Officer may specify forms
The Electoral Registration Officer may specify the form of any application, notice, return, record or other document required for the purposes of Part 5.
(Amended 21 of 2001 s. 69; E.R. 2 of 2012)

### Legislative Council Ordinance 《立法會條例》

77. Appointment of Revising Officer
(1) The Chief Justice may appoint an eligible person to be a Revising Officer for the purposes of this Ordinance. (Amended 1 of 2019 s. 71)
(2) If no appointment is made under subsection (1), the Registrar of the High Court is taken to be a Revising Officer.
(3) A Revising Officer has such functions and duties as are conferred or imposed on that Officer by or under this Ordinance.
(4) A Revising Officer has, when exercising or performing the Officer’s functions and duties, the powers and immunities of a magistrate under sections 21, 22, 99, 125 and 126 of the Magistrates Ordinance (Cap. 227).
(5) In subsection (1)—

eligible person (合資格人士) means—
(a) a magistrate;
(b) a former magistrate;
(c) a retired magistrate; or
(d) a legal officer as defined by section 2 of the Legal Officers Ordinance (Cap. 87). (Added 1 of 2019 s. 71)

### Legislative Council Ordinance 《立法會條例》

78. Appointment of Returning Officers and assistants
(1) The Electoral Affairs Commission must appoint for each constituency a number of Returning Officers and Assistant Returning Officers that the Commission considers to be necessary to enable an election to be held in the constituency, but only 1 Returning Officer may be appointed for each geographical constituency or functional constituency. (Replaced 14 of 2021 s. 340)
(2) (Repealed 21 of 2001 s. 70)(3) A Returning Officer has such functions and duties as are conferred or imposed on that Officer by or under this Ordinance.
(3A) If more than one Returning Officer is appointed for the Election Committee constituency, a function or duty of the Returning Officer for that constituency may be exercised or performed by any one of the Returning Officers appointed. (Added 14 of 2021 s. 340)
(4) An Assistant Returning Officer may, with the authority of the Returning Officer concerned, exercise and perform the functions and duties of Returning Officer.
(5) The Electoral Affairs Commission must publish in the Gazette a notice of the appointment of a Returning Officer and that Officer’s address.
(6) The executive authorities of the Government must ensure that each Returning Officer is provided with such staff as that Officer requires in order to exercise and perform that Officer’s functions and duties under this Ordinance.
(7) Expenses properly incurred by a Returning Officer or the Candidate Eligibility Review Committee in exercising or performing the Officer’s or Committee’s functions or duties under this Ordinance or the Electoral Affairs Commission Ordinance (Cap. 541) are a charge on, and are payable from, the general revenue. (Amended 14 of 2021 s. 340)

79. Offence to obstruct or hinder electoral officers or Candidate Eligibility Review Committee
(Amended 14 of 2021 s. 341)A person who, without reasonable excuse, obstructs or hinders, or interferes with, an electoral officer or the Candidate Eligibility Review Committee in the exercise of a function conferred, or the performance of a duty imposed, by or under this Ordinance commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine at level 5.
(Amended 14 of 2021 s. 341)

### Legislative Council Ordinance 《立法會條例》

80. Chief Executive may give directions as to exercise or performance of electoral officers’ functions and duties
(1) The Chief Executive may give directions, either generally or in any particular case, with respect to the exercise or performance by an electoral officer of any of the officer’s functions or duties under this Ordinance with respect to the holding or conduct of an election. The directions have no effect to the extent that they are inconsistent with this Ordinance or the Electoral Affairs Commission Ordinance (Cap. 541).
(2) An electoral officer must, when exercising or performing a function or duty under this Ordinance, comply with any direction given by the Chief Executive under this section with respect to the exercise or performance of the function or duty.

81. Death or incapacity of electoral officer not to terminate authority
Death or incapacity of an electoral officer does not terminate any authority conferred by the officer for the purposes of this Ordinance.

82. Chief Executive in Council may make regulations
(1) The Chief Executive in Council may make regulations for the better carrying out of the purposes of this Ordinance.
(2) In particular, a regulation under this section may provide for all or any of the following—
(a) the number or qualifications of subscribers required to complete a nomination paper for a candidate; and
(b) the amount that a candidate is required to lodge as a deposit at an election; and
(c) the forfeiture of the deposit if the candidate fails to obtain a prescribed proportion of the votes cast at the election and for the return of the deposit if the candidate obtains that proportion of votes at the election; and
(d) the functions and duties of a Revising Officer; and
(e) appeals to a Revising Officer. (Amended 14 of 2021 s. 342)
(3) A provision of a regulation may make it an offence, punishable by a fine not exceeding level 2, for a person to contravene a provision of the regulation.
(4) A regulation may—
(a) make different provisions for different circumstances and provide for a particular case or class of cases; and
(b) be made so as to apply only in specified circumstances; and
(c) prescribe fees for the purposes of the regulation.
(5) (Repealed 21 of 2001 s. 71)