Hong Kong Regulations

BOUNDARY AND ELECTION COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES AND ELECTION COMMITTEE CONSTITUENCY) REGULATION - SECT 62

Adjournment of poll at a particular polling station

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

(1) If at any time during polling in respect of an election or a by-election,
it appears to the presiding officer in respect of a particular polling station
that the poll at that polling station is being or is likely to be obstructed,
disrupted, undermined or seriously affected by the occurrence of-

   (a)  a typhoon or other climatic condition of a serious nature;

   (b)  an emergency due to natural causes or a catastrophe;

   (c)  a riot, open violence or such other occurrence of public danger; or

   (d)  a material irregularity relating to the poll, which has arisen or is
        likely to arise, the presiding officer may adjourn the poll at that
        polling station by declaring in a notice-

        (i)    published in the Gazette; or

        (ii)   if such publication is not practicable in the circumstances,
               published by some other means determined by the Commission,
               that such poll is adjourned.

(2) The presiding officer shall, in a notice-

   (a)  referred to in subsection (1); or

   (b)  published in the Gazette as soon as practicable after the publication
        of a notice under subsection (1); or

   (c)  if publication under paragraph (b) is not practicable in the
        circumstances, published by some other means determined by the
        Commission, specify the relevant date appointed under section 66 for
        holding a poll in place of the adjourned poll. (Enacted 1995)