Hong Kong Regulations

BOUNDARY AND ELECTION COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (GEOGRAPHICAL CONSTITUENCIES) REGULATION - SECT 38

Spoilt ballot papers

Caution: This is a past version. See the current version here.

Where an elector-

   (a)  inadvertently deals with his ballot paper in such a manner that it
        cannot be properly used as a ballot paper; or

   (b)  makes an error in marking his ballot paper, and gives the ballot paper
        to the presiding officer and establishes inadvertence or the fact that
        he has made an error, as the case may be, to the satisfaction of
        the presiding officer, the presiding officer may give him another
        ballot paper relating to the constituency concerned, in place
of the ballot paper so given (in this Regulation referred to as a "spoilt
ballot paper" (               )) and the presiding officer shall forthwith 

cancel the spoilt ballot paper by endorsing on the front the word "SPOILT"
and "      ".
(L.N. 221 of 1995)