Hong Kong Regulations

BOUNDARY AND ELECTION COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES AND ELECTION COMMITTEE CONSTITUENCY) REGULATION - SECT 56

Sealing of ballot papers in packets

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PART V DISPOSAL OF DOCUMENTS

(1) As soon as practicable after the returning officer has ascertained the
result of the poll in an election or a by-election, he shall, at the counting
station, make up into separate sealed packets-

   (a)  the counted ballot papers;

   (b)  the unissued ballot papers;

   (c)  the unused ballot papers;

   (d)  the spoilt ballot papers; and

   (e)  the rejected ballot papers.

(2) The returning officer shall endorse each such sealed packet with a
description of its contents, the date of the election or by-election to which
they relate and the name of the constituency concerned.

(3) Any candidate in respect of the constituency concerned or an election
agent or counting agent of such a candidate may be present when the
returning officer makes up the sealed packets and endorses them.

(4) The returning officer shall, before he makes up the sealed packets,
inform-

   (a)  the candidates who are present at the counting station; and

   (b)  either the election agent or counting agent of any candidate who is
        not present at the counting station, if either such agent is present.
        that they may be present when he makes up the sealed packets and
        endorses them. (Enacted 1995)