The Registration & Electoral Office (REO) announced today that the publication date of the provisional register for the 2025 Election Committee subsectors (ECSSs) will be advanced to June 24.

The provisional register and omissions list for the ECSSs will be available for inspection until June 30 by specified persons under the law.

The final register for the 2025 ECSSs will be published on July 21.

The REO explained that the arrangement was made to tie in with the ECSS By-elections to be held on September 7, as well as the subsequent eighth-term Legislative Council general election to be held on December 7 this year.

It elaborated that the Electoral Legislation (Miscellaneous Amendments) Ordinance 2025 empowers the Electoral Registration Officer (ERO) to suitably advance the publication of the registers for ECSSs in the year of the LegCo general election, so that the ECSS By‑elections of the year can be conducted in accordance with the most updated information included in the register without having to adopt the register published in late September in the year earlier. To enable the ECSS By‑elections to be conducted on the basis of the latest voter situation, the ERO will advance the compilation and publication of the 2025 provisional/final registers for ECSSs.

Voters/new applicants of ECSSs who received requests from the REO for supplementary information should reply by June 9.

Separately, voters who have been included in the omissions list for ECSSs will receive reminder letters from the REO to confirm their eligibility. These individuals must reply or provide supplementary information by June 30 so that they may, upon the Revising Officer’s approval, keep their voter status and be included in the final register of ECSSs. They may also raise claims or objections on or before June 30.

The REO will publish notices in the Gazette on July 4 to announce the number of Election Committee (EC) members to be returned for the relevant subsectors at the ECSS By-elections, the designated bodies of subsectors that need to fill vacancies of EC members and the number of EC members that they can nominate, and the details for the submission of nomination forms.