Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL) REGULATION - SECT 30

Chief Electoral Officer to assign polling stations for constituencies and Election Committee election and to allocate polling stations to electors and authorized representatives

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(1) The Chief Electoral Officer may assign-

   (a)  for each constituency, one or more polling stations for conducting the
        poll for that constituency; and

   (b)  for the Election Committee election, one or more polling  stations for
        conducting the poll for that election.

(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the Chief Electoral Officer may, in
relation to a general election, make arrangements for-

   (a)  voting for one or more ordinary functional constituencies to take
        place at a GC polling station;

   (b)  voting for one or more functional constituencies and one or more
        geographical constituencies to take place at an EC polling station.

(3) The Chief Electoral Officer must allocate to each elector and
authorized representative a polling station or polling stations to cast the
vote or votes he or she is entitled to cast at an election.

(4) Under subsection (3), for the purposes of a general election, the Chief
Electoral Officer-

   (a)  must, subject to paragraphs (ca), (cb) and (d), allocate to a
        GC elector, a GC polling station close to his or her registered 
        residential address to cast the vote for the
        geographical constituency;

   (b)  may allocate to a GC elector who is entitled to vote for an ordinary
        functional constituency either as an elector or an authorized 
        representative, his or her GC polling station to cast the vote for the
        geographical constituency and that for the functional constituency;

   (c)  may allocate to a GC elector who is entitled to vote for an ordinary
        functional constituency as an elector and for another ordinary
        functional constituency as an authorized representative, his or her
        GC  polling station to cast the vote for the geographical constituency
        and the votes for the 2 functional constituencies;

   (ca) may allocate to a GC elector who is entitled to vote for a special
        functional constituency either as an elector or an authorized 
        representative, an EC polling station to cast the vote for the
        geographical constituency and that for the functional constituency;
        (L.N. 65 of 2000)

   (cb) may allocate to a GC elector who is entitled to vote-

        (i)    for a special functional constituency as an elector and for
               another special functional constituency as an
               authorized representative; or

        (ii)   for a special functional constituency and for an ordinary
               functional constituency, as an elector for one and as an
               authorized  representative for the other, an EC polling station
               to cast the vote for the geographical constituency and the
               votes for the 2 functional constituencies; (L.N. 65 of 2000)

   (d)  may allocate to a GC elector who is a member of the Election 
        Committee, an EC polling station to cast the vote for the Election 
        Committee election, the vote for the geographical constituency and if
        he or she is entitled to vote for a functional constituency as an
        authorized  representative, the vote for the functional constituency
        concerned.

(4A) The Chief Electoral Officer may, if that Officer considers it appropriate
to do so in the circumstances, allocate to an elector or
authorized representative an alternative polling station, in addition to or in
substitution of the polling station or any of the polling stations, as the
case may be, allocated under subsection (3), to cast the vote or votes he or
she is entitled to cast at an election. (L.N. 65 of 2000)

(5) In this section, in relation to a person, his or her GC polling  station
is to be construed as the polling station, or the alternative polling station
in addition thereto or in substitution thereof, that person is allocated under
subsection (4)(a), or subsection (4A). (L.N. 147 of 1998; L.N. 65 of 2000)