Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (DISTRICT COUNCILS) REGULATION - SECT 70

Presiding Officer to keep order at the counting station

(Past version on 01/08/1999).

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

(2) If, at or in the vicinity of a counting station, a person-

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

   (b)  fails to obey a lawful order of the Presiding Officer, that Officer
        may, order the person to leave the counting station or the vicinity of
        the counting 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 Presiding Officer.

(4) A person who is removed under subsection (3) may not enter the relevant
counting station again on that day, unless the Officer who ordered his or her
removal permits him or her to do so. (L.N. 125 of 2003)