Hong Kong Regulations

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

Returning Officers or Presiding Officers to keep order at the counting station

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

(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 Presiding Officer who supervises a counting station must keep order
at that counting station. (L.N. 65 of 2000; L.N. 84 of 2004)

(2) If, at or in the vicinity of the central counting station, a person—

   (a)  misconducts himself or herself; or

   (b)  fails to obey a lawful order of—

        (i)    the Chief Returning Officer who supervises the counting 
               station; or

        (ii)   the Returning Officer in charge of a counting zone of the
               counting station, the Chief Returning Officer or the
               Returning Officer, as may be appropriate, may order the person
               to leave the counting station or the vicinity of the
               counting station, as the case may be, immediately. (L.N. 84 of
               2004 and L.N. 140 of 2004)

(2A) If, at or in the vicinity of a counting station other than the
central counting station, a person—

   (a)  misconducts himself or herself; or

   (b)  fails to obey a lawful order of the Presiding Officer who supervises
        the counting station, the Presiding 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. 84 of 2004)

(3) If a person fails to leave when ordered to do so under subsection (2) or
(2A), the person may be removed by a police officer or by a person authorized
in writing by the Chief Returning Officer, the Returning Officer or the
Presiding Officer, as may be appropriate. (L.N. 84 of 2004)

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(5) (Repealed L.N. 65 of 2000)