Hong Kong Regulations

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

Chief Electoral Officer may allocate special polling stations

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

(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. (L.N.
84 of 2004)

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

   (a)  may be-

        (i)    made in writing; and

        (ii)   delivered by hand or sent by post or by facsimile transmission;
               or

   (b)  may be made orally by telephone. (L.N. 65 of 2000)

(3) On receiving an application under subsection (1), the Chief Electoral
Officer must, if satisfied that the application is well founded, allocate to
the elector or authorized representative an appropriate
special polling station to cast the vote he or she is entitled to cast at the
election to which the application relates. (L.N. 65 of 2000)

(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(5) (Repealed L.N. 65 of 2000)

(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. (L.N. 84 of 2004)

(8) 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 special polling station, in addition
to or in substitution of the special polling station allocated under
subsection (3), to cast the vote he or she is entitled to cast at the
subsector election. (L.N. 65 of 2000)

(9) Where an alternative special polling station is allocated to an elector or
authorized representative under subsection (8), the Chief Electoral Officer
must, as soon as practicable, notify, in a manner that Officer considers
appropriate-

   (a)  the elector or authorized representative;

   (b)  the persons referred to in subsection (6); and

   (c)  the Presiding Officer of the alternative special polling  station.
        (L.N. 65 of 2000)