Nomination of Representatives of Arts Interests for the Hong Kong Arts Development Council 2007

The current term of the members of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC) will expire on 31 December 2007. The Home Affairs Bureau (HAB) has launched the nomination exercise to return representatives of the 10 arts interests for the HKADC in the next term^{Note 1}.

Pursuant to the Hong Kong Arts Development Council Ordinance (Cap. 472), the Chief Executive may appoint up to 10 persons nominated by the specified arts interests as members of the HKADC. The 10 arts interests are Arts Administration, Arts Criticism, Arts Education, Chinese Opera (Xiqu), Dance, Drama, Film Arts, Literary Arts, Music and Visual Arts. The Chief Executive will consider for appointment as members of the HKADC nominees returned from this year's nomination exercise for a term up to 3 years commencing 1 January 2008.

	Introduction (PDF)
	Phase I¡¼	Registration of eligible organisations/individual arts workers as members of the nominating bodies of the respective arts interests (2 May to 5 June 2007)
	Phase II¡¼	Voter Registration (29 June to 3 August 2007) * Deadline for Voter Registration will be extended to 5:00pm on 3 August 2007 (Friday)
	Phase III¡¼	Nomination of candidates for the respective arts interests (14 to 27 August 2007)
	Phase IV¡¼	Electioneering and polling (3 to 30 September 2007) Polling Results
	Press Releases
	PR Concepts Company Limited, the nomination agent for the 2007 HKADC Nomination Exercise - Removal Notice

Note 1
The HAB held a public consultation session on the arrangements for the nomination exercise at the Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Centre, Kowloon Park on 13 April 2007 to solicit public views. The consultation period closed on 25 April 2007. Please click here for further details.