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Public Offices (Candidacy and Taking Up Offices) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Ordinance 2021 Part 7 Section 27 Part 7 Amendments to Chief Executive Election Ordinance (Cap. 569) 27. Section 14 amended (disqualification from being nominated)

(1) Section 14—
 * Renumber the section as section 14(1).

(2) After section 14(1)—
 * Add
 * “(2) Without prejudice to section 13(1)(c) of the Electoral Affairs Commission Ordinance (Cap. 541), a person is also disqualified from being nominated as a candidate if, within the 5 years before the date of nomination—
 * (a) the person has vacated an office, or has been disqualified from entering on an office, under the law, for declining or neglecting to take a specified oath; or
 * (b) the person has been declared or decided in accordance with any law—
 * (i) to be in breach of a specified oath; or
 * (ii) to have failed to fulfil the legal requirements and conditions on upholding the Basic Law and bearing allegiance to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China.