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Emergency (Date of General Election) (Seventh Term of the Legislative Council) Regulation Part 3 Section 8 behalf of the person at or in connection with the 2021 election.

(4) Anything done by a person before the discontinuation date is not to be regarded as a public declaration by the person of the person’s intention to stand as a candidate at the 2021 election.

'''8. 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 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 18 July 2020 and ending with 31 July 2020;”; and
 * (b) the following provision is taken to be substituted for section 37(1B) and (1C) of Cap. 554—
 * “(1B) For the discontinued election (as defined by section 2 of the Emergency (Date of General Election) (Seventh Term of the Legislative Council) Regulation), the candidate must ensure that the election return is lodged before the expiry of the period of 60 days beginning with 1 August 2020.”.