Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (DISTRICT COUNCILS) REGULATION - SECT 63A

Steps to be taken at the close of the poll: a small polling station or a special polling station

Caution: This is a past version. See the current version here.

(1) As soon as practicable after the close of the poll at a small 
polling station or a special polling station, the Presiding Officer of that
polling station must, in the presence of the persons, if any, who are present
within the polling station, take the following steps-

   (a)  place the ballot box or boxes where that Officer and other persons who
        are present within the polling station can see them;

   (b)  cover each ballot box with a device provided for that purpose so that
        a ballot paper or any other material cannot be introduced into or
        withdrawn from the ballot box after it is covered;

   (c)  use a padlock to keep the device secured in position;

   (d)  seal each ballot box; and

   (e)  make up into separate sealed packets-

        (i)    ballot papers which have not been issued;

        (ii)   the unused ballot papers;

        (iii)  the spoilt ballot papers; and

        (iv)   the marked copies of the final register.

(2) A candidate and an election agent and a polling agent of such candidate
may stay in a polling station referred to in subsection (1) while it is closed
for taking the steps referred to in subsection (1)(a),

   (b)  , (c), (d) and (e).

(3) The Presiding Officer of the small polling station or special 
polling station must then deliver the ballot box or boxes and the sealed
packets to the Presiding Officer of the main counting station. (L.N. 125 of
2003 and L.N. 191 of 2003)