Chim Pui-chung

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	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 Financial 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

1. Hon CHIM Pui-chung
2. Hong Kong/SAR Court of Appeal
3. Long Hair impeachment bid rests on Civic Party, SCMP, 22 Mar 2012
4. Hong Kong's Bureaucrats and the Stock Exchange
5. Front-runner in H.K. leadership race kicks off campaign
6. Beijing loyalist clinches victory in Hong Kong.