Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (DISTRICT COUNCILS) REGULATION - SECT 74

Returning Officer to open ballot box

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(1) A Returning Officer into whose charge a ballot box is given must open it
by breaking the seal. The Returning Officer must do so in the presence of the
candidates, their election agents or counting agents, if present at the
counting zone.

(2) The Returning Officer must permit a candidate, or the election  agent or
counting agent of a candidate, to inspect any paper taken from the ballot box,
if so requested by the candidate or agent, before that paper is disposed of. A
candidate or an election agent or a counting agent must not be permitted under
this subsection to inspect a ballot paper.