Hong Kong Regulations

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

Presiding Officer at a counting station to open ballot box for the receipt of GC ballot papers

(1) A Presiding Officer at a counting station must open a ballot box for the
receipt of GC ballot papers in that Officer's charge 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.

(2) The Presiding 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)