Independent Commission Against Corruption representatives will speak to Tsoi Yuen villagers as early as Friday about their election rights after several Heung Yee Kuk members allegedly said that it would be illegal for residents to run in the forthcoming district council polls.
Villagers said they were told in August that they had no right to run in the November elections because they were living in temporary houses.
Residents refused to say which members of the kuk - the group representing indigenous peoples' interests in the New Territories - gave this information.
An Electoral Affairs Commission spokesman said any registered voter aged 21 or above who had lived in Hong Kong for three years before the nomination could stand for election.
Tsoi Yuen residents resettled near a village belonging to the Pat Heung South constituency after the government bought and cleared out land in Shek Kong to build a railway depot.
Pressure from kuk members has already forced Tsoi Yuen villagers to bow out of the running, including Ko Chun-heung and Fung Yu-chuck, who were planning to contest the Pat Heung north and south constituencies under the banner of the Land Justice Alliance, a loose coalition of 12 civic groups campaigning against excessive development.
The alliance, formed in June, originally planned to field five candidates in the district council elections.