(Adopted at the Fifth Session of the Tenth National People’s Congress on March 16, 2007)

Article 1 These Measures are enacted in accordance with the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China, the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China an the provisions of the third paragraph of Article 15 of the Election Law of the National People’s Congress and Local People’s Congresses of the People’s Republic of China and in view of the actual conditions of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

Article 2 The election of deputies of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to the Eleventh National People’s Congress shall be under the direction of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress.

Article 3 The number of deputies to be elected from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on the Eleventh National People’s Congress is 36.

Article 4 Deputies to be elected from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to the National People’s Congress shall be Chinese citizens among the residents of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region who have reached the age of 18.

Article 5 A Council for Election of Deputies to the Eleventh National People’s Congress shall be formed in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The Election Council shall be composed of the ex-members of the Council for Election of Deputies of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to the Tenth National People’s Congress, the members of the Tenth National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference from among the residents of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, who are not ex-members as mentioned above, and members of the Selection Committee for the Third Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, who are Chinese citizens. However, those who have expressed their unwillingness to become members of the Election Council shall be excepted.

The Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region shall be a member of the Election Council for Deputies to the Eleventh National People’s Congress.

The name list of the members of the Election Council shall be published by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress.

Article 6 The first meeting of the Election Council shall be convened by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, at which 15 of its members shall, on the basis of the nomination made by the Council of Chairmen of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, be elected to form a presidium.

The Presidium shall preside over the Election Council. The executive chairman of the Presidium shall preside over the meetings of the Presidium.

Article 7 The Election Council shall hold its plenary meeting only when more than half of its members are present.

Article 8 Members of the Election Council shall attend the Council’s meetings and perform their duties in their capacity as individuals.

Members of the Election Council are expected to attend the Council’s meetings; if a member cannot attend a meeting for special reasons, he/she shall ask the Presidium for leave of absence in advance.

No member of the Election Council may, directly or indirectly, demand or accept bribes from any participants or candidates in the election or seek any other benefits, nor may he/she directly or indirectly try, by offering benefits, to affect the positions held by the participants or candidates in the election.

Article 9 The election date shall be determined by the Presidium of the Election Council.

Article 10 Each of the candidates for deputies to the National People’s Congress shall jointly be nominated by ten or more members of the Election Council. The number of candidates for deputies jointly nominated by each member shall not be greater than 36.

The member of the Election Council who nominates another person as a candidate shall fill in a Letter for Nomination of a Candidate for Deputy of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China to the Eleventh National People’s Congress.

Article 11 Any Chinese citizen from among the residents of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, who has reached the age of 18 and who is willing to participate in the election of deputies to the Eleventh National People’s Congress, shall get and fill in a Participant’s Registration Form for Election of Deputies of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China to the Eleventh National People’s Congress. The participant shall be liable for the truthfulness of the facts filled in the form, and prior to the closing day for nomination, the Registration Forms filled in by the participants and the Letter for Nomination of a Candidate filled in separately by ten or more members of the Election Council shall be handed in.

Where a member of the Election Council is registered as a participant in election, it is necessary for ten or more other members of the Election Council to fill in the Letter for Nomination of a Candidate for him.

Article 12 The time for nomination of candidates for deputies shall be determined by the Presidium of the Election Council.

Article 13 The Presidium of the Election Council shall publish the name list of , and a brief introduction to, the candidates for deputies to the Eleventh National People’s Congress and have them printed and distributed to all the members of the Election Council.

After the Presidium publishes the name list of the candidates for deputies, members of the Election Council may look up the nomination of candidate.

Article 14 Competitive election shall be adopted in which the number of candidates for deputies to be elected by the Election Council to the Eleventh National People’s Congress shall be greater than the number of deputies to be elected.