Chapter:	541D	Title:	Electoral Affairs Commission (Electoral Procedure) (Legislative Council) Regulation	Gazette Number:	E.R. 2 of 2012
Section:	10	Heading:	How to nominate a candidate for a geographical constituency or District Council (second) functional constituency*	Version Date:	02/08/2012

(1) A person is to be nominated as a candidate for a geographical constituency or a candidate for the District Council (second) functional constituency (as applicable) by submitting to the Returning Officer a nomination form containing a nomination list which complies with section 38 of the Legislative Council Ordinance (Cap 542) and this section. (L.N. 73 of 2011)
(2) The nomination form for the purposes of subsection (1) must be submitted in person by one of the candidates on the nomination list as required by section 38 of the Legislative Council Ordinance (Cap 542) and in accordance with this section.
(3) The nomination form must be in the specified form and subscribed in accordance with the Legislative Council (Subscribers and Election Deposit for Nomination) Regulation (Cap 542 sub. leg. C).
(4) Each candidate on a nomination list must make the declarations and promissory oath required by section 40(1)(b) of the Legislative Council Ordinance (Cap 542) in the appropriate place on the nomination form.
(5) The nomination form must contain a declaration by each candidate to the effect that he or she-

(a) is eligible to be nominated as a candidate for a geographical constituency or a candidate for the District Council (second) functional constituency (as applicable); (L.N. 73 of 2011)
(b) is not disqualified from being so nominated;
(c) consents to being so nominated; and
(d) in the case of a multiple nominees list, consents to the order of priority in which the names of candidates appear on the nomination list.

(a) must contain the name of each candidate as shown on the candidate's identity document (being the identity document on the basis of which the particulars of the candidate are recorded in the geographical constituencies final register) and, if the Returning Officer is satisfied that any of the candidate is usually known by a name different from that shown on the candidate's identity document aforesaid, may also include that different name; and
(b) must also contain the identity document number and principal residential address of each candidate. (L.N. 65 of 2000)

(a) that he or she is eligible to be nominated as a candidate for a geographical constituency or a candidate for the District Council (second) functional constituency (as applicable); or (L.N. 73 of 2011)
(b) as to the validity of the nomination.