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Emergency (Date of General Election) (Seventh Term of the Legislative Council) Regulation Part 3 Section 9 9. Government’s payment in respect of declared election expenses

(1) An eligible person or eligible group is entitled to receive a payment from the Government in an amount equal to the declared election expenses.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), a person is an eligible person if—
 * (a) a Returning Officer at the discontinued election accepted a nomination form in respect of the person;
 * (b) the Returning Officer did not decide that the nomination form or the nomination was invalid under section 16 of Cap. 541D before the discontinuation date; and
 * (c) the person did not withdraw the person’s candidature.

(3) For the purposes of subsection (1), a group of persons is an eligible group if—
 * (a) a Returning Officer at the discontinued election accepted a nomination form containing a nomination list in respect of the group;
 * (b) the Returning Officer did not decide that the nomination form was invalid under section 16 of Cap. 541D before the discontinuation date; and
 * (c) the Returning Officer did not reject the nomination list under section 38(7) of Cap. 542 before the discontinuation date.

(4) To avoid doubt, a payment referred to in subsection (1) is not an election donation within the meaning of Cap. 554.

(5) In this section—

declared election expenses (申報選舉開支) means—
 * (a) in relation to an eligible person—the amount set out as the person’s election expenses in the election return lodged for the discontinued election; and