Chapter:	576	Title:	VILLAGE REPRESENTATIVE ELECTION ORDINANCE	Gazette Number:	2 of 2003
		Heading:	Long title	Version Date:	14/02/2003

An Ordinance to provide for the establishment of the office of resident representative for an Existing Village; to provide for the establishment of the office of indigenous inhabitant representative for an Indigenous Village or a Composite Indigenous Village; to provide for the elections of Resident Representatives and Indigenous Inhabitant Representatives; to provide for the constitution of a Rural Committee to be construed to take account of the provisions of this Ordinance; to amend the Electoral Affairs Commission Ordinance to extend the functions of the Electoral Affairs Commission (except its functions under section 4(a) and (c) of that Ordinance) to the elections of Resident Representatives and Indigenous Inhabitant Representatives and to require the functions of the Electoral Affairs Commission in relation to the conduct of those elections to be performed through the Director of Home Affairs; to amend the Heung Yee Kuk Ordinance to revise the terms of office of the Chairman, the Vice-Chairmen, the Ordinary Members of the Executive Committee, and the Special Councillors of the Full Council, of the Heung Yee Kuk that commenced in 1999 and that commences in 2003; and to provide for related and consequential matters.

[The Ordinance except sections 2 and 19 of Schedule 4	}	14 February 2003
Sections 2 and 19 of Schedule 4	}	1 October 2003]

(Originally 2 of 2003)