Hong Kong Regulations Hong Kong Regulations
- CHAPTER 541F
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Long Title
1. (Omitted as spent)
2. Interpretation
3. Application
4. Electoral Registration Officer to compile register for the first
ordinary election
5. Form of register
6. Electoral Registration Officer to determine the part in which an
elector's name is to be recorded
7. Electoral Registration Officer to publish notice of the register and
to make the register available for public inspection
8. Chief Electoral Officer to publish a notice specifying a period and
place for submitting nomination forms
9. Chief Electoral Officer to determine nomination period
10. Chief Electoral Officer to publish by-election notice if a
by-election is to be held under section 33 of the District Councils
Ordinance
11. Election notice to be in the specified form
12. How to nominate a candidate for a constituency
13. Returning Officer may assist in preparation of nomination forms
14. Returning Officer to make available copies of nomination forms for
public inspection
15. Returning Officer not to accept nomination form without deposit and
to issue receipt for deposit
16. Returning Officer to decide whether candidates are validly nominated
17. Returning Officer to have regard to advice of Nominations Advisory
Committee
18. Returning Officer may give opportunity to rectify a nomination form
19. Returning Officer to endorse invalid nomination forms
20. How a nominated candidate is to withdraw from candidature
21. No nomination for more than one constituency
22. Returning Officer to publish a notice of particulars of validly
nominated candidates
23. Returning Officer to publish a notice for the purposes of section
39(1) of the District Councils Ordinance
24. Returning Officer to notify and declare if a validly nominated
candidate is proved to have died
25. Returning Officer to vary decision if a validly nominated candidate
is proved to be disqualified
26. A candidate may appoint election agent
27. Returning Officer to send to other candidates a notice of
particulars of election agent
28. A candidate may authorize persons to incur election expenses on the
candidate's behalf
29. Returning Officer to make available copies of authorization of
election expense agents for public inspection
30. Chief Electoral Officer to appoint polling hours and to give notice
in the Gazette
31. Chief Electoral Officer to designate polling stations, counting
stations, small polling stations, main counting stations and dominant
counting stations
32. Chief Electoral Officer to designate some polling stations as special
polling stations
33. Chief Electoral Officer to assign polling stations for constituencies
and to allocate polling stations to electors
34. Chief Electoral Officer to send poll cards to electors
35. Chief Electoral Officer may allocate special polling stations
36. Persons to vote at the correct polling station
37. Chief Electoral Officer to appoint or remove Presiding Officers, etc.
for each polling station
38. Chief Electoral Officer to supply candidates with copy or extract of
final register
39. Chief Electoral Officer to supply Returning Officer with copy or
extract of final register
40. Chief Electoral Officer to carry out other duties relating to
polling stations
41. Chief Electoral Officer to supply list of polling officers to assist
Presiding Officer
42. Presiding Officer to exhibit at polling station notice providing
information for the guidance of electors
43. Returning Officer to determine no canvassing zones and no staying
zones
44. Presiding Officer to keep order in no canvassing zone and no
staying zone
45. Candidates may appoint polling agents
46. Chief Electoral Officer to delineate polling stations on a map and
display map outside the polling station
47. Who may enter or be present at a polling station
48. What constitutes an offence at a polling station
49. Presiding Officer to keep order at the polling station
50. Design of ballot box
51. Presiding Officer to seal ballot box before commencement of poll
52. Form of ballot paper and order of appearance of names of candidates
on ballot papers
53. Ballot paper to be given to a person only if Presiding Officer is
satisfied of the person's identity
54. Questions to be asked from persons applying for a ballot paper
55. A candidate or election agent or polling agent may challenge a
person who has applied for a ballot paper or who has voted
56. Presiding Officer to issue only one ballot paper to an elector
56A. Elector who has not cast vote may return to cast vote with
permission
57. Procedure for voting
58. How ballot papers are to be marked
59. Marking of ballot papers for or by incapacitated person
60. When person is to be issued with ballot paper marked "重複" and
"TENDERED"
61. What ballot papers are to be marked "未用" and "UNUSED" by the
Presiding Officer
62. What ballot papers are to be marked "損壞" and "SPOILT" by the
Presiding Officer
63. Steps to be taken at the close of the poll: a polling station
which is not a small polling station or a special polling station
63A. Steps to be taken at the close of the poll: a small polling
station or a special polling station
64. Presiding Officer to prepare a ballot paper account for each packet
of sealed ballot papers
65. Returning Officer and Presiding Officer to give notice of place and
time of the counting of votes to candidates
66. Candidates may appoint counting agents
67. Chief Electoral Officer to appoint or remove counting officers
68. Who may be present at the counting of votes
69. What constitutes an offence at a counting station
70. Presiding Officer to keep order at the counting station
71. (Repealed L.N. 125 of 2003)
72. Arrangements for the supervision of counting stations and counting
zones
73. (Repealed L.N. 125 of 2003)
74. Presiding Officer to open ballot box
75. Presiding Officer to verify ballot paper account
76. Counting of votes
77. (Repealed L.N. 125 of 2003)
78. Votes recorded on invalid ballot papers not to be counted
79. Presiding Officer to make decisions on questionable ballot papers
80. Presiding Officer's decision on a ballot paper to be final
80A. Result of the counting of votes and re-count: one counting station
80B. Result of the counting of votes and re-count: 2 or more counting
stations
80C. Determination of result in the event of equality of votes
81. Returning Officer to declare election result
82. The form in which Returning Officer is to publish result of
election
83. Presiding Officer to seal ballot papers in packets
84. Chief Electoral Officer to receive ballot papers, accounts, packets,
etc.
85. Ballot paper in custody of Chief Electoral Officer may be inspected
only on a court order
86. Chief Electoral Officer to retain election documents for at least 6
months
87. Returning Officers, Presiding Officers, polling officers or counting
officers not to act as agents of candidates in the same election
88. Employees of candidates not to act as electoral officers
89. Presiding Officer may perform functions through polling officers
90. Returning Officer may perform functions through Assistant Returning
Officers
91. Chief Electoral Officer to be subject to direction of Commission
92. Acts done in the absence of candidates or agents not to be invalid
93. Electoral officers, candidates and agents to make declaration of
secrecy
94. Enforcement of provisions as to secrecy
95. Procedure after election proceedings are terminated
96. Procedure in case of death or disqualification of candidate after
close of poll
97. Procedure after election fails
98. Publication and display of notices, etc.
99. (Repealed L.N. 125 of 2003)
100. Commission to specify forms
101. Reporting of irregularities
102. Letters that may be sent free of postage by candidates
103. Election advertisements
104. Offence of false declaration
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