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Emergency (Date of Election) (Sixth Term Chief Executive) Regulation Part 3 Section 7 '''7. Application of Cap. 554 to discontinued election'''

(1) For the purposes of section 4(1) of Cap. 554, the discontinued election is an election to which Cap. 554 applies.

(2) Cap. 554 applies to the discontinued election with the following modifications—
 * (a) in paragraph (b) of the definition of candidate in section 2(1) of Cap. 554, the reference to “any time before the close of nominations for an election” is taken to be a reference to “any time before 24 February 2022”;
 * (b) in section 2(1) of Cap. 554, the following definition is taken to be substituted for the definition of election period—
 * “election period (選舉期間) means the period beginning with 20 February 2022 and ending with 23 February 2022;”; and
 * (c) the following provision is taken to be substituted for section 37(1A) of Cap. 554—
 * “(1A) For the discontinued election (as defined by section 2 of the Emergency (Date of Election) (Sixth Term Chief Executive) Regulation), the candidate must ensure that the election return is lodged before the expiry of the period of 60 days beginning with 24 February 2022.”.