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ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (DISTRICT COUNCILS) REGULATION - SECT 55

A candidate or election agent or polling agent may challenge a person who has applied for a ballot paper or who has voted

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(1) If a candidate, an election agent or a polling agent declares to the
Presiding Officer that he or she has reasonable cause to believe that a person
has committed the offence of personation and undertakes in writing to
substantiate the allegation in a court, the Presiding Officer may request a
police officer to arrest that person. A candidate or an election agent or a
polling agent may so declare only at the time a person applies for the
ballot paper or after a person has applied for a ballot  paper and before he
or she has left the polling station.

(2) If the Presiding Officer has reason to believe that a person applying for
a ballot paper or who has applied for a ballot paper and who has not left the
polling station has committed the offence of personation, the
Presiding Officer may request a police officer to arrest that person.

(3) A person regarding whom a declaration is made under subsection

(1) (whether or not that person is arrested under that subsection) or a person
who has been arrested under subsection (2) is not to be prevented from voting
only by reason of the declaration or the arrest.

(4) In this section "personation" (冒充行為) has the meaning assigned to
it by section 6 of the Corrupt and Illegal Practices Ordinance ( Cap  288).

"personation" (冒充行為)



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