Hong Kong Regulations

BOUNDARY AND ELECTION COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES AND ELECTION COMMITTEE CONSTITUENCY) REGULATION - SECT 34

Issue of ballot papers

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

(1) A person shall not vote at any polling station other than-

   (a)  the polling station designated in respect of that part of the final
        register in which his particulars are registered; or

   (b)  in the case of a person who has been allocated a specified polling
        station under section 21(6)(a), the specified polling station so
        allocated.

(2) A ballot paper shall not be given to an elector unless the 
presiding officer is satisfied by the production of either his identity card
or such other document showing his identity card number, photograph and name
that he is the person registered in the final register whom he claims to be.

(3) In any polling station designated for a geographical constituency and one
or more functional constituencies, when an elector entitled to vote at that
polling station in respect of that geographical constituency and a functional
constituency for which it is designated applies for a ballot paper,
the presiding officer shall issue to him a ballot paper for that geographical
constituency and a ballot paper for that functional constituency at the same
time.

(4) Immediately before giving a ballot paper or 2 ballot papers, as may be
appropriate, to an elector-

   (a)  the name of the elector as stated in the copy of the final register
        shall be called out; and

   (b)  a line shall be placed in that copy across the identity card number,
        name and other particulars of the elector to denote that all the
        ballot papers he is entitled to have been issued to him, but no record
        shall be made as to the particular ballot papers issued to him.
        (Enacted 1995)