Chim Pui-chung

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Chim Pui-chung 詹培忠

Chim in 2008
Member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
In office 9 October 1991 – 30 June 1997
Preceded by	New constituency
Succeeded by	Replaced by Provisional Legislative Council
Constituency	Financial Services
In office 21 December 1996 – 30 June 1998 (Provisional Legislative Council)
In office 1 July 1998 – 9 September 1998
Preceded by	New parliament
Succeeded by	Fung Chi-kin
Constituency	Financial Services
In office 1 October 2004 – 30 September 2012
Preceded by	Henry Wu
Succeeded by	Christopher Cheung
Constituency	Financial Services
Personal details
Born	(1946-09-24) 24 September 1946 Chaozhou, Guangdong, China
Spouse(s)	Ly Kim-chau
Occupation	Company director

Chim Pui-chung (born 1946, Chaozhou, Guangdong, China) is a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (Legco), representing the Final Services Functional Constituency. He is director of several companies.^[1]

Political career

Chim was a legislative councillor from 1991 until he was jailed for conspiring to forge documents in 1998, whereupon he was impeached and disqualified as a legislator by Legco.^[2]^[3] He was released from prison in 1999. In 2004, he was re-elected unopposed as legislative councillor for the financial services constituency. In 2008 he was again elected.^[4]

In 2005, he was an unsuccessful candidate in the Hong Kong Chief Executive election, receiving only 21 nominations from the Election Committee, less than the minimum requirement of 100.^[5] As a result, Donald Tsang was declared the uncontested winner.^[6]

References

Legislative Council of Hong Kong
New constituency	Member of Legislative Council Representative for Financial Services 1991–1997	Replaced by Provisional Legislative Council
New parliament	Member of Provisional Legislative Council 1997–1998	Replaced by Legislative Council
New parliament	Member of Legislative Council Representative for Financial Services 1998	Succeeded by Fung Chi-kin
Preceded by Henry Wu	Member of Legislative Council Representative for Financial Services 2004–2012	Succeeded by Christopher Cheung

Members of the 4th Legislative Council of Hong Kong (2008–2012)

2004–2008 ←

→ 2012–2016

President

Jasper Tsang

Geographical
constituencies

Hong Kong Island	Tanya Chan^r Audrey Eu Regina Ip Cyd Ho Kam Nai-wai Jasper Tsang

Kowloon West	Frederick Fung Starry Lee Priscilla Leung Raymond Wong^r James To

Kowloon East	Chan Kam-lam Alan Leong^r Fred Li Wong Kwok-kin

New Territories West	Albert Chan^r Cheung Hok-ming Albert Ho Lee Cheuk-yan Lee Wing-tat Leung Yiu-chung Tam Yiu-chung Wong Kwok-hing

New Territories East	Gary Chan Andrew Cheng Emily Lau Lau Kong-wah Leung Kwok-hung^r Ronny Tong Nelson Wong

Functional
constituencies

^r denotes members who resigned in January 2010 and re-elected by the Hong Kong by-election, 2010 on 16 May 2010.
^x resigned to accept Executive Council post as Secretary for Development on 29 July 2012.

Persondata
Name	Chim, Pui Chung
Alternative names
Short description	Hong Kong politician
Date of birth	1946
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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