Heung Yee Kuk Election Expenses Order
[18 December 1981]
(Format changes—E.R. 2 of 2019)
This order may be cited as the Heung Yee Kuk Election Expenses Order.
This order shall apply in relation to the election of a Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Special Councillor of the Full Council or Ordinary Member of the Executive Committee of the Full Council of the Heung Yee Kuk.
Subject to paragraphs 4 and 5, for the purposes of section 13 of the Ordinance , the maximum scale of election expenses shall be—
in respect of any fee or fees paid by a candidate to his election agent, an amount not exceeding $3,000 in the aggregate;
in respect of all other election expenses, an amount not exceeding $10,000 in the aggregate.
| “Ordinance” refers to the repealed Corrupt and Illegal Practices Ordinance (Cap. 288). |
References in paragraphs 3 and 5 to election expenses shall not include the reasonable travelling expenses of a candidate and the reasonable expenses of his living at hotels or elsewhere for the purposes of and in relation to the election.
Subject to paragraph 3(a), where a person is a candidate in more than one Heung Yee Kuk election in any period of 3 months the total maximum scale of election expenses in respect of those elections shall be $10,000.