PART 2
Membership of Election Committee
2. How Election Committee is to be constituted
(1) The Election Committee is to consist of 800 members, who must be Hong Kong permanent residents.
(2) The membership of the Election Committee (other than ex-officio members) is to be determined in accordance with the procedures specified in this Schedule.
(3) The members of the Election Committee are to be representative of 4 sectors, with each sector being represented by 200 members.
(4) The sectors are to be composed of the subsectors specified in Tables 1, 2, 3 and 4.
(5) The composition of the subsectors is as follows—
- (a) except in the case of the higher education and education subsectors, the social welfare subsector and the tourism and hotel subsectors, the composition of a subsector specified in Table 1, 2 or 3 which has the same name as that of a functional constituency is to be the same as that of the functional constituency;
- (b) each of the subsectors specified in column 2 of Table 4 is to be composed of the persons described in column 3 of that Table in relation to the subsector;
- (c) the Hong Kong Chinese Enterprises Association, tourism, hotel, Chinese medicine, higher education, education, Employers’ Federation of Hong Kong and social welfare subsectors are to be composed as shown in Table 5; and
- (d) the religious subsector is to be composed as described in Part 3.
(6) Subject to subsection (7), for the purpose of constituting the Election Committee, each subsector is allocated the number of members specified in the relevant Table in respect of the subsector.
(7) The Election Committee is constituted in the following manner—
- (a) the number of members allocated to the religious subsector is to be nominated by that subsector in accordance with Part 3;
- (b) subject to subsection (9), the number of members allocated to the subsectors specified in Tables 1, 2 and 3 (except those allocated to the religious subsector), and items 3, 4, 5 and 6 of Table 4 are to be elected by the relevant subsectors in accordance with Part 4; and
- (c) subject to subsection (8), the number of members allocated to the subsector specified—
- (i) in item 1 of Table 4 is to be filled by the persons holding office as Hong Kong deputies to the National People’s Congress; and
- (ii) in item 2 of Table 4 is to be filled by the persons holding office as the Members of the Legislative Council,
- who are registered as ex-officio members of the Election Committee in, and whose names have not been removed from, the final register of members of the Election Committee.
(8) Subject to section 41, the Electoral Registration Officer shall, in compiling a final register of members of the Election Committee under section 40(1) after the publication of results of the subsector ordinary elections, register—
- (a) the persons holding office on the date of those subsector ordinary elections (or the last of those dates, if different dates are specified for those subsector ordinary elections) as Hong Kong deputies to the National People’s Congress; and
- (b) the persons holding office on the date of those subsector ordinary elections (or the last of those dates, if different dates are specified for those subsector ordinary elections) as the Members of the Legislative Council, (except those persons who are not Hong Kong permanent residents) as ex-officio members of the Election Committee, in accordance with the EAC Regulations.
(9) (a) Subject to paragraph (b), the number of members allocated to the sports, performing arts, culture and publication subsector is to be divided equally among the 4 sub-subsectors constituting that subsector, namely sports, performing arts, culture and publication sub-subsectors.
