Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL) REGULATION - SECT 65

Returning Officer and Presiding Officer to give notice of time and place of counting of votes to candidates

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



"Presiding Officer" (投票站主任) PART IV

COUNTING OF VOTES: GENERAL ELECTION AND BY-ELECTIONS

(1) Subject to subsection (7), the Returning Officer or the Presiding Officer,
as may be appropriate, is to determine the time at which the
counting of the votes in respect of a constituency is to begin.

(2) The time determined under subsection (1) for a constituency must be a time
after the poll has closed at all the polling stations at which polling for
that constituency was conducted. (L.N. 84 of 2004)

(3) The Returning Officer must give notice in writing to each candidate for a
constituency of the place or places at which counting is to take place for the
constituency contested by the candidate. (L.N. 66 of 2008)

(4) (Repealed L.N. 84 of 2004)

(5) Notice under subsection (3) must be given at least 1 working day before
the polling day.

(5A) The Presiding Officer must, before the counting of votes begins, display
a notice in a prominent place outside the counting station stating the time
that the counting station will be opened to the public to observe the counting
of votes. (L.N. 84 of 2004)

(6) If a poll for a constituency is adjourned under Schedule 2, the
counting of the votes for that constituency is to stand postponed.

(7) If the counting of the votes stands postponed under subsection

(6), the Chief Electoral Officer is to determine a time for the counting to
begin and the place or places for it to take place. The time must be after the
adjourned poll is resumed and after the close of that poll. The
Returning Officer is to give notice to each candidate of the relevant
constituency of the time and place.

(7A) Where the Commission has given a direction under section 75A that the
counting of votes cast at a polling station in respect of a
geographical constituency is to take place or continue to take place at a
counting station specified by the Chief Electoral Officer, the Returning 
Officer must give notice, which may be oral or in writing, to each candidate
for the constituency of the time and place at which the counting is to take
place or continue to take place. (L.N. 66 of 2008)

(8) A notice required to be given under this section may be given to the
election agent or counting agent of a candidate or a list of  candidates
instead of to the candidate.

(8A) A notice required to be given under this section to a candidate may be
given, where the candidate is on a multiple candidates  list, to the candidate
ranking first in priority on the list. (L.N. 66 of 2008)

(9) In this section, "Presiding Officer" (投票站主任) does not include a
Presiding Officer of a small polling station. (L.N. 84 of 2004) (L.N. 84 of
2004)