Hong Kong Regulations

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

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

(Past version on 05/05/2000).
(Past version on 27/02/1998).
(Past version on 21/01/1998).

(1) The Chief Electoral Officer may assign one or more polling  stations for
conducting the poll for each constituency. (L.N. 84 of 2004)

(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the Chief Electoral Officer may, in
relation to a general election, make arrangements for voting for one or more
functional constituencies and one or more geographical constituencies to take
place at a GC polling station. (L.N. 84 of 2004)

(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 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, a GC 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, a GC polling station
               to cast the vote for the geographical constituency and the
               votes for the 2 functional constituencies. (L.N. 65 of 2000;
               L.N. 84 of 2004)

   (d)  (Repealed L.N. 84 of 2004)

(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)