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The nomination period for the 2006 Election Committee Subsector Elections will run from November 1 to 8.
Candidates must hand in the completed nomination forms in person to the Returning Officer for their subsector during ordinary business hours within the nomination period - 9am to 5pm, Mondays to Fridays, and 9am to noon on a Saturday.
Nomination forms can be obtained from District Offices, offices of the Returning Officers, and the Registration and Electoral Office (REO) at 10/F Harbour Centre, 25 Harbour Road, Wan Chai. They can also be downloaded at the REO website (www.reo.gov.hk). Enquiries can be made to 2891 1001.
The list of Returning Officers for various subsectors and their office addresses is available on the REO website.
For all subsectors or sub-subsectors in which the number of validly nominated candidates exceeds the number of Election Committee members to be returned for that subsector or sub-subsector, a poll will be held on December 10.
Forty Election Committee members will be nominated by the religious subsector concurrently between November 1 and 8.
The list of candidates who are validly nominated will be published in the government gazette after the nomination period.
Ends/Friday, October 27, 2006
Issued at HKT 14:55
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