Hong Kong Ordinances

ELECTIONS (CORRUPT AND ILLEGAL CONDUCT) ORDINANCE - SECT 17

Corrupt conduct to destroy or deface ballot papers

(1) A person engages in corrupt conduct at an election if the person-

   (a)  without lawful authority, supplies a ballot paper to another person;
        or

   (b)  with intent to deceive, puts into a ballot box a paper other than a
        ballot paper that the person is lawfully authorized to put into the
        box; or

   (c)  with intent to deceive, removes a ballot paper from a polling station;
        or

   (d)  without lawful authority, destroys, defaces, takes or otherwise
        interferes with a ballot paper in use, or that has been used, at the
        election; or

   (e)  without lawful authority, destroys, removes, opens or otherwise
        interferes with a ballot box in use at the election.

(2) In a prosecution for an offence against this section, the onus of proving
lawful authority lies on the defendant.