Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL) REGULATION - SECT 69

Returning Officers to keep order at the counting station

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(1) The Chief Returning Officer, and the Returning Officers in charge of a
counting zone of the central counting station must keep order at the
central counting station. (L.N. 65 of 2000)

(1A) The Returning Officer who supervises a counting station must keep order
at that counting station. (L.N. 65 of 2000)

(2) If a person-

   (a)  misconducts himself or herself at or in the vicinity of-

        (i)    the central counting station, the Chief Returning Officer may;
               or

        (ii)   any other counting station, the Returning Officer who
               supervises that counting station may;

   (b)  at or in the vicinity of a counting station, fails to obey a lawful
        order of the Returning Officer-

        (i)    who supervises that counting station; or

        (ii)   in charge of a counting zone of that counting station, that
               Officer may, order the person to leave the counting station or
               the vicinity of the counting station, as the case may be,
               immediately. (L.N. 65 of 2000)

(3) If a person fails to leave when ordered to do so under subsection (2), the
person may be removed by a police officer or by a person authorized in writing
by the Chief Returning Officer or the Returning Officer, as may be
appropriate.

(4) A person who is removed under subsection (3) may not enter the relevant
counting station again on that day, unless the Officer who ordered his or her
removal permits him or her to do so.

(5) (Repealed L.N. 65 of 2000)