 All participants have to have a Hong Kong ID or be born in Hong Kong (with a valid birth certificate).The age requirement is 17–27 as of 2011, though the upper age was previously up to 25.While there has been other Miss Hong Kong pageants in prior years producing notable titleholders such as Judy Dann (1951), Virginia June Lee (1954), Michelle Mok (1958), Laura da Costa (1967) and Mabel Hawkett (1970), the current annual TVB pageant began in 1973.