The Government today published details of the nomination period for the upcoming Rural By-election in the Gazette.
Eleven Rural Representative vacancies will be open for nominations from March 18 to 31.
The by-election will return a Resident Representative for each of the six Existing Villages, an Indigenous Inhabitant Representative for each of the five Indigenous Villages or Composite Indigenous Village.
Nomination forms are available from the Home Affairs Department, the New Territories District Offices and on the Rural Representative Election website.
Completed nomination forms must be submitted in person to the concerned Returning Officer by March 31.
A gazette notice on valid nominations will be published within 14 days following the nomination period. Each validly nominated candidate will be informed separately.
If there is more than one validly nominated candidate for the same village, a poll will be held for that village on April 27.
Call 2152 1521 for enquiries.
