Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL) REGULATION - SECT 70

Ballot boxes to be delivered to the counting station

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(1) In a general election in relation to which the Chief Electoral Officer has
exercised the power under section 28(9)(a)-

   (a)  a Presiding Officer of a GC polling station must deliver or arrange to
        be delivered-

        (i)    to the relevant GC counting station, the ballot boxes from that
               Officer's polling station for the GC ballot papers, together
               with the sealed packets under section 63 and the
               ballot paper account prepared by that Officer for the
               geographical constituency; and

        (ii)   to the central counting station, the ballot boxes from that
               Officer's polling station for the FC ballot papers, together
               with the sealed packets under section 63 and the
               ballot paper account prepared by that Officer for the
               functional constituencies; and

   (b)  a Presiding Officer of a EC polling station must deliver or arrange to
        be delivered to the central counting station, the ballot boxes from
        that Officer's polling station, together with the sealed packets under
        section 63 and the ballot paper account prepared by that Officer.

(2) In a by-election for a constituency or the Election Committee, the
Presiding Officer must deliver or arrange to be delivered to the
counting station for counting the votes cast at the by-election, the ballot
boxes from that Officer's polling station, together with the sealed packets
under section 63 and the ballot paper account prepared by that Officer. (L.N.
65 of 2000)