### meaning assigned to it by section 11(1) of the Schedule to the Chief Executive Election Ordinance (Cap. 569) 《行政長官選舉條例》

97. Commission to specify forms
(1) The Commission may specify forms for the purpose of this Regulation.
(2) The Chief Electoral Officer is to make available during ordinary business hours at that Officer’s office and at the office of each Returning Officer, the forms specified under subsection (1).
(3) The Chief Electoral Officer may make the forms specified under subsection (1) available at any other place that Officer considers appropriate.
(4) Forms specified under subsection (1) are to be made available free of charge.
(5) Subsections (2), (3) and (4) do not apply to the specified forms for the subsector election notices, notice published under section 18 or 19, notification by the Chief Electoral Officer of the particulars of election agents, notice of guidance to voters referred to in section 39, ballot papers, ballot paper account or notice of the subsector election result.
(6) The Commission may specify forms for notifications by the Returning Officer under the Election Committee (Subscribers and Election Deposit for Nomination) Regulation (Cap. 569 sub. leg. C).

98. Reporting of irregularities
(1) If the Chief Electoral Officer, Returning Officer or Presiding Officer is of the opinion that an irregularity has occurred in relation to a subsector election, a poll or a counting of votes, the relevant Officer must make a report in writing to the Commission.
(2) A report of an irregularity must be made as soon as practicable after the relevant Officer becomes aware of it, but it must in any case be made within 14 days after the polling day of the subsector election to which it relates.
(3) If it appears to an Officer referred to in subsection (1) that an occurrence which that Officer considers to be a material irregularity has taken place or is likely to take place in relation to a subsector election, that Officer must make a report to the Commission immediately in a manner that Officer considers expedient in the circumstances.
(4) If a report is made under subsection (3) otherwise than in writing, the Officer concerned must make a report also in writing as soon as practicable, and in any event within 30 days after the polling day of the relevant subsector election.

### meaning assigned to it by section 11(1) of the Schedule to the Chief Executive Election Ordinance (Cap. 569) 《行政長官選舉條例》

99. Letters that may be sent free of postage by candidates
(1) A letter that may be sent free of postage by or on behalf of a candidate under section 38(1) of the Schedule to the Chief Executive Election Ordinance (Cap. 569) must—
(a) be posted in Hong Kong;
(b) subject to section 38(2A) of the Schedule to the Chief Executive Election Ordinance (Cap. 569), contain materials relating only to the candidate’s candidature at the subsector election concerned; (18 of 2011 s. 37)
(c) not exceed 50 g in weight; (11 of 2019 s. 22)
(d) be not larger than 165 mm × 245 mm and not smaller than 90 mm × 140 mm in size; and (11 of 2019 s. 22)
(e) not exceed 5 mm in thickness at any part of the letter. (11 of 2019 s. 22)
(2) If letters are sent, in a bulk mailing, free of postage by or on behalf of a candidate under section 38(1) of the Schedule to the Chief Executive Election Ordinance (Cap. 569), the candidate or any person authorized by the candidate must provide the Postmaster General with—
(a) a specimen of the materials contained in that bulk mailing; and
(b) a declaration, in the specified form, signed by the candidate or the person and stating that the materials contained in that bulk mailing are identical with the specimen provided to the Postmaster General.
(3) If, in relation to any letters sent, in a bulk mailing, free of postage by or on behalf of a candidate under section 38(1) of the Schedule to the Chief Executive Election Ordinance (Cap. 569)—
(a) any letter in that bulk mailing does not comply with subsection (1); or
(b) a declaration under subsection (2)(b) is false in any particular,
the candidate is liable for payment of postage for all the letters in that bulk mailing.

### meaning assigned to it by section 11(1) of the Schedule to the Chief Executive Election Ordinance (Cap. 569) 《行政長官選舉條例》

101. Offence of false declaration
(1) A person who, in an election related document, makes a statement which that person knows to be false in a material particular or recklessly makes a statement which is incorrect in a material particular or knowingly omits a material particular from an election related document, commits an offence.
(2) A person who directly or indirectly by himself or herself or another person on his or her behalf conspires with, incites, compels, induces, coerces, intimidates or persuades another person to make a false statement in an election related document or to provide information which that person knows to be wrong in a material particular in an election related document, commits an offence.
(3) A person who commits an offence under this section is liable to a fine at level 2 and to imprisonment for 6 months.
(4) An offence under subsection (1) or (2) is to be an offence prescribed for the purposes of section 14 of, and sections 9 and 18 of the Schedule to, the Chief Executive Election Ordinance (Cap. 569). (15 of 2016 s. 69)
(5) In this section, election related document (與選舉有關的文件) means a form, declaration, application, authorization, notice, statement or a nomination form required or used for the purposes of this Regulation.

### meaning assigned to it by section 11(1) of the Schedule to the Chief Executive Election Ordinance (Cap. 569) 《行政長官選舉條例》

107. Interpretation (Part 7)
(1) In this Part—
Court (法院) means the Court of First Instance;
election period (選舉期), in relation to an election, means the period—
(a) beginning on the first day of the nomination period; and
(b) ending on—
(i) the day on which a declaration is made under section 19 or 22; or
(ii) the day on which the polling ends;

open platform (公開平台) means a platform operated through the Internet to which the public has access without having to go through an access control process put in place for that platform;
printed election advertisement (印刷選舉廣告) means an election advertisement printed on any material;
printer (印刷人), in relation to a printed article, includes any person who reproduces the article by any means;
publish (發布) means print, display, exhibit, distribute, post up, publicly announce or make publicly known by any other means, and includes continue to publish.
(2) Any person who authorizes the publication of an election advertisement is taken to have published the advertisement for the purposes of this Part.
(3) If a Returning Officer has not been appointed for a subsector, any reference in this Part to a Returning Officer is to be construed as a reference to the Chief Electoral Officer.
(4) A document published by a candidate during an election period that gives details of the work done by the candidate in the capacity of—
(a) the Chief Executive;
(ab) an EC member; (14 of 2021 s. 224)
(b) a member of the Legislative Council;
(c) a member of a District Council;
(d) a member of the Heung Yee Kuk;
(e) the Chairman or Vice-Chairman or a member of the Executive Committee of a Rural Committee within the meaning of section 3(3)(a) of the Heung Yee Kuk Ordinance (Cap. 1097); or
(f) a Rural Representative, (5 of 2014 s. 2)
is an election advertisement for the purposes of this Part.