Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL) REGULATION - SECT 71

Arrangements for the supervision of counting station and counting zone

(Past version on 05/05/2000).
(Past version on 27/02/1998).
(Past version on 21/01/1998).

(1) The Chief Returning Officer is to supervise the central  counting station.
In that counting station-

   (a)  the Chief Returning Officer is to be in charge of the counting  zones
        for the special functional constituencies, and is to be assisted in
        those counting zones by the respective Returning Officers for the
        special  functional constituencies; and

   (b)  the respective Returning Officers for the ordinary functional 
        constituencies are to be in charge of the counting zone for the
        relevant functional constituencies. (L.N. 84 of 2004)

   (c)  (Repealed L.N. 84 of 2004)

(2) A counting station for counting the votes for a geographical  constituency
is to be supervised by the Presiding Officer of that counting  station. (L.N.
84 of 2004)

(3) (Repealed L.N. 84 of 2004)

(4) The Chief Returning Officer and the Returning Officers are to be assisted
by one or more Assistant Returning Officers.

(5) The Presiding Officer may be assisted by one Deputy Presiding  Officer and
one or more Assistant Presiding Officers. (L.N. 84 of 2004)

(6) 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. 65 of
2000)

"Presiding Officer" (投票站主任)