Hong Kong Regulations

BOUNDARY AND ELECTION COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (GEOGRAPHICAL CONSTITUENCIES) REGULATION - SECT 39

Keeping order at the polling station

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(1) It shall be the duty of presiding officer to keep order at his polling
station.

(2) If any person misconducts himself at or in the vicinity of a polling
station, or fails to obey a lawful order of the returning officer or
the presiding officer, such officer may order him to leave the polling station
or the vicinity thereof immediately and if he fails to so leave, he may be
removed by a police officer, or by any other person authorized in writing by
the returning officer or the presiding officer to remove him and the person so
removed shall not, without the permission of the returning officer or
the presiding officer, enter the polling station during that day.

(3) The powers conferred by this section shall not be exercised so as to
prevent an elector from voting at the polling station he is entitled to vote
at. (L.N. 221 of 1995) (Enacted 1994)