No such election is required if the time is less than one year. However, these provisions were drafted before there was any consensus on freezing the TPG. Thus the question of whether the draft provisions even apply to a case of resignation to protest a change in the province's status deserves discussion.
然此補選規定訂定時，「凍省」一說尚未有共識，因而是否適用於今省長因凍省之議而辭職的新情況，也值得商榷；更何況省長選舉工程浩大、勞民傷財，率爾行之絕非社稷之福。