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Zachary Wong Wai-yin 黃偉賢 | |
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| Member of theYuen Long District Council | |
| In office 1988 – 21 October 2021 | |
| Constituency | Nam Ping |
| Member of theLegislative Council | |
| In office 10 December 1991 – 31 July 1995 | |
| Preceded by | Tai Chin-wah |
| Constituency | New Territories West |
| In office 11 October 1995 – 30 June 1997 | |
| Constituency | New Territories North-west |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1957-12-22)22 December 1957 (age 67) Hong Kong |
| Political party | Meeting Point(1988–1994) Democratic Party(1994–present) |
| Occupation | District Councillor |
Zachary Wong Wai-yin (Chinese:黃偉賢; born 22 December 1957, Hong Kong) is a formerYuen Long District Councillor (representingNam Ping) for theMeeting Point and laterDemocratic Party and a former member of theLegislative Council of Hong Kong.[1]
He joined theAssociation for the Rights of the Elderly, founded byYeung Sum andFrederick Fung, in 1982. He was elected chairman of the association in 1991. In 1988, he joined Meeting Point and became a member of its Central Committee in 1991. He was also part of theJoint Committee on the Promotion of Democratic Government. He organised most of the rallies, petitions and 50-hour fasting strike at theStar Ferry Pier in 1989 for a faster pace of democracy.
He was first elected to the Yuen Long District Board in 1988 and replacedTai Chin-wah as a LegCo member in aby-election in 1991. He stood in the Legislative Council elections in 1998 and again in 2012 but did not get elected.
In 2020, Wong became chairman of theYuen Long District Council, after the pro-BeijingDAB was defeated in the2019 Hong Kong local elections.
On 21 October 2021, Wong was unseated from his position both member and chairman of Yuen Long District Council, after he was disqualified together with 16 other members of the same council for being deemed by the Hong Kong SAR Government to have not fulfilled its requirements for taking the oath of allegiance upon taking office under thePublic Offices (Candidacy and Taking Up Offices) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Ordinance 2021 - which it introduced into and was passed by the Legislative Council in the first half of 2021 and covers all members of every District Council in addition to legislative councillors and other major public office holders.
| Political offices | ||
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| New constituency | Member ofYuen Long District Council Representative forNam Ping 1994–2021 | Vacant |
| Preceded by | Chairman of Yuen Long District Council 2020–2021 | Succeeded by |