Hong Kong Regulations

BOUNDARY AND ELECTION COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (GEOGRAPHICAL CONSTITUENCIES) - SECT 45

Persons who may be present at the count

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(1) Subject to subsection (3) and section 46, except with the consent of the
returning officer, no person other than the returning officer, counting
officers, candidates in respect of the constituency concerned, their
respective election agents and counting agents, members of the Commission, the
Chief Electoral Officer, police officers on duty at the counting station or
any person authorized in writing by a member of the Commission may be present
at the conduct of a count. (L.N. 221 of 1995)

(2) The returning officer shall ensure that the arrangements made for the
count are such that the candidate or any agent of his referred to in
subsection (1) is afforded an opportunity to observe how individual votes are
counted.

(3) The returning officer may, if he considers it fit, and having regard to
whether it is practicable to do so without disrupting the count and
prejudicing the secrecy of the individual votes, permit members of the public
to observe the conduct of the count, from an area at the counting station
allocated by him for the purpose at such distance from where the counting is
taking place as he considers appropriate. (L.N. 221 of 1995) (Enacted 1994)