Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL) REGULATION - SECT 34

Chief Electoral Officer to appoint or remove Presiding Officers, etc. for each polling station*

(Past version on 16/07/2004).
(Past version on 05/05/2000).
(Past version on 21/01/1998).

(1) The Chief Electoral Officer must appoint a person to preside at each
polling station.

(2) The Chief Electoral Officer may appoint, as polling officers, persons that
Officer considers suitable to assist the Presiding Officer in the conduct of a
poll. (L.N. 65 of 2000)

(3) The Chief Electoral Officer may, at any time, with reasonable cause revoke
the appointment of any Presiding Officer or polling officer made under
subsection (1) or (2). (L.N. 84 of 2004; L.N. 66 of 2008)

(4) Where the same place is designated as both a polling station and a
counting station under section 28(1A), the Presiding Officer of the
polling station is to be regarded as the Presiding Officer of the counting 
station. (L.N. 66 of 2008)
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* (Amended L.N. 66 of 2008)