Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (DISTRICT COUNCILS) REGULATION - SECT 35

Chief Electoral Officer may allocate special polling stations

(1) An elector, who claims to be a person with a disability and that access to
the polling station which is allocated to him or her under section 33(2) is
difficult for him or her due to the disability, may apply to the Chief
Electoral Officer to vote at the special polling station designated for the
constituency for which he or she is entitled to vote.

(2) An application under subsection (1) must be made at least 5 days before
polling day.

(3) On receiving an application under subsection (1), the Chief Electoral
Officer must, if satisfied that the application is well founded, allocate to
the elector an appropriate special polling station to cast the vote he or she
is entitled to cast at the election to which the application relates.

(4) The Chief Electoral Officer must inform the applicant in a manner that
Officer considers appropriate, the result of the application, as soon as
practicable.

(5) When the Chief Electoral Officer allocates a special polling  station to
an elector, that Officer must, as soon as practicable, notify, in a manner
that Officer considers appropriate-

   (a)  the Returning Officer;

   (b)  the Presiding Officer of the special polling station; and

   (c)  the Presiding Officer of the polling station previously allocated to
        the elector, of the name, identity document number and
        registered residential address of that elector.

(6) The Chief Electoral Officer must notify the persons referred to in
subsection (5) of the constituency for which the elector is entitled to vote.

(7) The Chief Electoral Officer may, if the circumstances require, allocate to
an elector an alternative special polling station, in addition to or in
substitution of the special polling station allocated under subsection (3), to
cast the vote he or she is entitled to cast at the election.

(8) Where an alternative special polling station is allocated to an elector
under subsection (7), the Chief Electoral Officer must, as soon as
practicable, notify, in a manner that Officer considers appropriate-

   (a)  the elector;

   (b)  the persons referred to in subsection (5); and

   (c)  the Presiding Officer of the alternative special polling  station.