Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL) REGULATION - SECT 33

Chief Electoral Officer may allocate special polling stations

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(1) An elector or authorized representative who claims to be a person with a
disability and that access to the polling station which is allocated to him or
her under section 30 is difficult for him or her due to the disability, may
apply to the Chief Electoral Officer to vote at the special polling station
designated for the constituency for which he or she is entitled to vote. If
the elector is a member of the Election  Committee, he or she may apply to
vote in the Election Committee election at the special polling station
designated for that election.

(2) An application under subsection (1) must be made at least 5 days before
polling day.

(3) On receiving an application under subsection (1), the Chief Electoral
Officer must, if satisfied that the application is well founded, allocate the
appropriate special polling station to the elector or
authorized representative.

(4) The Chief Electoral Officer must inform the applicant in a manner that
that Officer considers appropriate, the result of the application, as soon as
practicable.

(5) An elector or authorized representative who is allocated a
special polling station may vote only at that polling station in the election
to which his or her application relates.

(6) When the Chief Electoral Officer allocates a special polling  station to
an elector or authorized representative under this section, that Officer must,
as soon as practicable, notify, in a manner that the Officer considers
appropriate-

   (a)  the Returning Officer;

   (b)  the Presiding Officer at the special polling station; and

   (c)  the Presiding Officer of the polling station previously allocated to
        the elector or the authorized representative, of the name,
        identity document number and registered residential address of that
        elector or authorized representative.

(7) The Chief Electoral Officer must notify the persons referred to in
subsection (6) of the geographical constituency, and the functional 
constituency, if any, for which the elector or authorized representative is
entitled to vote. If the elector is entitled to vote at the Election 
Committee election, the Chief Electoral Officer must notify those persons that
the elector is so entitled.