Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL) REGULATION - SECT 79

Result of the counting of votes and re-count for functional constituencies

(Past version on 21/01/1998).

(1) After the votes are counted under section 76 or 77, the Returning Officer
must make known to the candidates who are present within the counting zone,
the result of the counting of the votes. If the candidates are not present,
the Returning Officer is to make known the result to their respective
election agents or counting agents, if those agents are present at the
counting zone. (L.N. 84 of 2004)

(2) A candidate who is present when the votes are counted or re-counted or
an election agent who is so present, may request the Returning Officer to
count again the counted or re-counted (as the case may be) votes. That Officer
must comply with the request unless the Officer is of the opinion that the
request is unreasonable.

(3) After a count or re-count is completed, nothing further is to be done
until each candidate present at the completion, or the election  agent of each
candidate (but not both) if present at the completion of the count or re-count
is given a reasonable opportunity to make a request for a re-count.