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 functional constituencies to take place at a
        GC polling station; and

   (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 paragraph (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 a
        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 a
        functional constituency as an elector and for another 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; and

   (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.

(5) In this section, in relation to a person, his or her GC polling  station
is to be construed as the polling station that person is allocated under
subsection (4)(a). (L.N. 147 of 1998)