Hong Kong Regulations

BOUNDARY AND ELECTION COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES AND ELECTION COMMITTEE CONSTITUENCY) REGULATION - SECT 33

Challenge of electors

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

(1) If at the time a person applies for a ballot paper or after he has applied
for a ballot paper and before he has left the polling station, a candidate or
the election agent or polling agent of a candidate declares to
the presiding officer that he has reasonable cause to believe that the
applicant has committed the offence of personation, as defined by section  6
of the Corrupt and Illegal Practices Ordinance ( Cap. 288), and undertakes to
substantiate the charge in a court, or if the presiding  officer has reason to
believe that the applicant has committed that offence, the presiding officer
may request a police officer to arrest the applicant.

(2) A person in respect of whom a declaration is made under subsection (1)
(whether or not such person has been arrested under that subsection) or a
person who has been so arrested pursuant to the presiding  officer having
reason to believe that he has committed the offence of personation, shall not
by reason thereof only be prevented from voting. (Enacted 1995)