Three village representative vacancies will open to nominations for by-elections candidates from April 2 to 15.

The by-elections will cover one indigenous inhabitant representative and two resident representative posts for three villages.

To run in the indigenous inhabitant representative by-election, a candidate must be an indigenous inhabitant as well as a voter of the indigenous village and ordinarily reside in Hong Kong.

Resident representative candidates must live in the existing village and have resided there for six years immediately preceding the nomination. He or she must also be a voter of the village.

Candidates must be permanent HK residents

All candidates of both categories must be permanent Hong Kong residents aged 21 or above. Nobody is allowed to stand as a candidate in more than one village.

Each candidate must be nominated by at least five electors from that village. Each elector may nominate only one candidate for his or her village.

Nomination forms will be available at the Public Enquiry Services Centres of all District Offices, the Home Affairs Department and the Village Representative Elections' website.

Deadline: April 15

Nomination forms must be submitted in person to the returning officer, who is the District Officer of the respective Village, by 5pm on April 15.

If there is more than one validly nominated candidate for the same Village, a poll will be held for that Village on May 8. Eligible voters will receive a polling notice which specifies the date, time and place of the poll.