Hong Kong Regulations

BOUNDARY AND ELECTION COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (GEOGRAPHICAL CONSTITUENCIES) REGULATION - SECT 46

Keeping order at counting station

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(1) It shall be the duty of the returning officer to keep order at the
counting station designated in respect of the constituency or the District, as
the case may be, for which he is appointed.

(2) If any person misconducts himself at or in the vicinity of a counting
station, or fails to obey a lawful order of the returning officer, such
officer may order him to leave the counting station or the vicinity thereof
and if he fails to so leave immediately, he may be removed by a police
officer, or by any other person authorized in writing by the returning officer
to remove him and the person so removed shall not, without the permission of
the returning officer, enter the counting station until the result of the
election has been declared in respect of every constituency, the votes in
respect of which were counted at that counting station.

(3) Without prejudice to subsection (2), any person who fails to comply with a
lawful order given by the returning officer or behaves in a disorderly manner
within or at a counting station commits an offence and is liable to a fine at
level 2 and imprisonment for 3 months. (L.N. 221 of 1995) (Enacted 1994)