Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL) REGULATION - SECT 63A

Steps to be taken at the close of the poll: a small polling station

(1) As soon as practicable after the close of the poll at a small 
polling station, the Presiding Officer of that polling station must, in the
presence of the persons, if any, who are present within the polling  station,
take the following steps—

   (a)  place the ballot box or boxes where that Officer and other persons who
        are present within the polling station can see them;

   (b)  cover each ballot box with a device provided for that purpose so that
        a ballot paper or any other material cannot be introduced into or
        withdrawn from the ballot box after it is covered;

   (c)  use a padlock to keep the device secured in position;

   (d)  seal each ballot box; and

   (e)  make up into separate sealed packets—

        (i)    ballot papers which have not been issued;

        (ii)   the unused ballot papers;

        (iii)  the spoilt ballot papers; and

        (iv)   the marked copies of the final register.

(2) A candidate and an election agent and a polling agent of such candidate
may stay in a polling station referred to in subsection (1) while it is closed
for taking the steps referred to in subsection (1)(a),

   (b)  , (c), (d) and (e).

(3) The Presiding Officer of the small polling station must then deliver the
ballot box or boxes, the sealed packets and the ballot paper  accounts
prepared by that Officer to the Presiding Officer of the main 
counting station. (L.N. 140 of 2004) (L.N. 84 of 2004)