Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (DISTRICT COUNCILS) REGULATION - SECT 49

Presiding Officer to keep order at the polling station

(1) The Presiding Officer must keep order at the polling station.

(2) If, on polling day, in the polling station or its vicinity, a person-

   (a)  misconducts himself or herself, the Returning Officer or the
        Presiding Officer may;

   (b)  fails to obey a lawful order of the Returning Officer, that Officer
        may; or

   (c)  fails to obey a lawful order of the Presiding Officer, that Officer
        may, order the person to leave the polling station or the vicinity of
        the polling station, as the case may be, immediately.

(3) If a person fails to leave when ordered to do so under subsection (2), the
person may be removed by a police officer or by a person authorized in writing
by the Returning Officer or the Presiding  Officer, as the case may be.

(4) A person who is removed under subsection (3) may not enter the relevant
polling station again on that day, unless the Returning Officer or the
Presiding Officer, as the case may be, permits him or her to do so.

(5) The powers conferred by this section are not to be exercised so as to
prevent a person from voting at the polling station allocated to that person.