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

21. Number of Members to be returned for functional constituency
The number of Members to be returned for a functional constituency is—
(a) 1 Member for each constituency other than the labour functional constituency; and
(b) 3 Members for the labour functional constituency.
(c) (Repealed 14 of 2021 s. 298)(Amended 2 of 2011 s. 12; 14 of 2021 s. 298)

21A. Establishment of Election Committee constituency
(1) The Election Committee constituency is established for the purpose of returning Members at elections for that constituency.
(2) The Election Committee constituency is composed of all members of the Election Committee.

21B. Number of Members to be returned for Election Committee constituency
At a general election, 40 Members are to be returned for the Election Committee constituency.

24. Who is eligible to be registered as an elector: geographical constituencies
(1) Subject to this Part, a person is eligible to be registered as an elector for a geographical constituency only if the person—
(a) is already registered as an elector in the then existing final register of geographical constituencies; or
(b) applies in accordance with this Part to be registered as such an elector and is entitled to be so registered.
(2) A person is not, by virtue of being registered as an elector in an existing final register of geographical constituencies, entitled to be included as an elector in any subsequent register of geographical constituencies if the Electoral Registration Officer is satisfied on reasonable grounds that the person—
(a) has since ceased to ordinarily reside in Hong Kong; or
(b) no longer resides at the residential address recorded against the person’s name in that existing register and that Officer does not know the person’s new principal residential address (if any) in Hong Kong.
(3) Subsection (2)(b) does not apply to a person who—
(a) is serving a sentence of imprisonment; and
(b) does not have a home in Hong Kong outside the prison. (Added 7 of 2009 s. 5)

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

26. Corporate elector to have authorized representative
(1) A corporate elector is required to appoint one eligible person to be its authorized representative for the purposes of casting its vote at an election. (Amended 14 of 2021 s. 302)
(2) A person is eligible to be an authorized representative of a corporate elector for a functional constituency only if the person—
(a) is registered, or is eligible to be and has applied to be registered, as an elector for a geographical constituency; and
(b) has a substantial connection with the corporate elector; and
(c) is not registered, and has not applied to be registered, as an elector for the constituency; and
(d) is not disqualified from being registered or voting under section 31 or 53.
(3) A person who is an authorized representative of a corporate elector is not eligible to be appointed as the authorized representative of another corporate elector. (Amended 14 of 2021 s. 302)
(4) A person cannot act as an authorized representative of a corporate elector unless the person is registered as such a representative by the Electoral Registration Officer.
(5) A corporate elector may from time to time replace its authorized representative, but only in the circumstances and manner prescribed by regulations in force under the Electoral Affairs Commission Ordinance (Cap. 541). The replacement does not have effect until it is registered by the Electoral Registration Officer.
(6) An application may be made to the Electoral Registration Officer for the purposes of subsection (1) or (5) in accordance with regulations in force under the Electoral Affairs Commission Ordinance (Cap. 541) by the corporate elector concerned. The application must be in writing and be in the specified form.
(7) The Electoral Registration Officer may refuse an application made under subsection (6) only on the ground that the authorized representative specified in the application is ineligible to be, or disqualified from being, such a representative.
(8) A decision to appoint or replace an authorized representative of a corporate elector under subsection (1) or (5) may only be made by the governing authority, by whatever name called, of the corporate elector. (Added 14 of 2021 s. 302)

27. Elector to be permanent resident of Hong Kong
A natural person is not eligible to be registered as an elector for a geographical constituency or functional constituency unless the person is a permanent resident of Hong Kong.
(Amended 14 of 2021 s. 303)

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

28. Elector to reside in Hong Kong
(1) A natural person is not eligible to be registered as an elector in the register of geographical constituencies unless, at the time of applying for registration, the person satisfies the Electoral Registration Officer—
(a) that the person ordinarily resides in Hong Kong; and
(b) that the residential address notified in the person’s application for registration is the person’s only or principal residence in Hong Kong.
(1A) If—
(a) a person serving a sentence of imprisonment applies for registration as an elector in the register of geographical constituencies; and
(b) at the time of the application, the person does not have a home in Hong Kong outside the prison,

the prescribed address, as defined in subsection (1B), is deemed to be the person’s only or principal residence in Hong Kong for the purposes of subsection (1). (Added 7 of 2009 s. 6)
(1B) In subsection (1A), prescribed address (訂明地址) means—
(a) the last dwelling-place in Hong Kong at which the person resided and which constituted the person’s sole or main home; or
(b) if no address is established to the satisfaction of the Electoral Registration Officer to be the last dwelling-place in Hong Kong at which the person resided and which constituted the person’s sole or main home, the residential address of the person furnished under regulation 4(1)(b) or 18(1) of the Registration of Persons Regulations (Cap. 177 sub. leg. A) and last recorded under those Regulations. (Added 7 of 2009 s. 6)

(2) The Electoral Registration Officer may omit from the final register of geographical constituencies the name of an elector if satisfied on reasonable grounds—
(a) that the elector no longer ordinarily resides in Hong Kong; or
(b) that the residential address last notified to that Officer is no longer the elector’s only or principal residence in Hong Kong.
(2A) If—
(a) an elector is serving a sentence of imprisonment; and
(b) the elector no longer has a home in Hong Kong outside the prison,

the residential address of the elector last notified to the Electoral Registration Officer is deemed to continue to be the elector’s only or principal residence in Hong Kong for the purposes of subsection (2). (Added 7 of 2009 s. 6)
(3) In this section, a reference to a person’s only or principal residence in Hong Kong is a reference to a dwelling-place in Hong Kong at which the person resides and which constitutes the person’s sole or main home.