Hong Kong Regulations

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

Presiding Officer to open ballot box

(Past version on 01/08/1999).

(1) A Presiding Officer other than a Presiding Officer of a small 
polling station which is not designated as a main counting station or a
special polling station which is not so designated must open a ballot box in
that Officer's charge by breaking the seal. The Presiding Officer must do so
in the presence of the candidates, their election agents or counting  agents,
if present at the counting zone. (L.N. 125 of 2003 and L.N. 191 of 2003)

(2) The Presiding Officer must permit a candidate, or the election  agent or
counting agent of a candidate, to inspect any paper, other than a
ballot 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. (L.N. 125 of 2003)