Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL) REGULATION - SECT 73

Returning Officer at the central counting station to open ballot box

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

(1) A Returning Officer into whose charge a ballot box is given at the
central counting station must open it by breaking the seal. That Officer must
do so in the presence of the candidates, their election  agents or
counting agents, if present at the counting zone. (L.N. 65 of 2000)

(2) The Returning Officer must permit a candidate, or the election  agent or
counting agent of a candidate, to inspect any paper, other than a ballot
paper, taken from the ballot box, if so requested by the candidate or agent,
before that paper is disposed of. A candidate or an election agent or a
counting agent must not be permitted under this subsection to inspect a ballot
paper. (L.N. 84 of 2004)