Hong Kong Regulations Hong Kong Regulations
- CHAPTER 541I
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Long Title
1. Interpretation
2. Application
3. Chief Electoral Officer to publish notice calling for nominations or
supplementary nominations for religious subsector
4. Chief Electoral Officer to publish notice specifying period and
address for submitting subsector nomination forms
5. Chief Electoral Officer to determine nomination period
6. Notices under sections 3 and 4 to be in specified form
7. How to nominate EC members for religious subsector
8. How to nominate candidates for other subsectors
9. Returning Officer may assist in preparation of nomination forms
10. Returning Officer to make available copies of nomination forms for
public inspection
11. Returning Officer not to accept subsector nomination form without
deposit and to issue receipt for deposit
12. Returning Officer to decide whether nominee for religious subsector
is validly nominated
13. Returning Officer to decide whether candidates are validly nominated
14. Returning Officer to have regard to advice of Nominations Advisory
Committee
15. Returning Officer may give opportunity to rectify nomination form
16. Returning Officer to endorse that nomination form is invalid
17. How nominated candidate is to withdraw candidature
18. Returning Officer to publish notice of particulars of validly
nominated candidates
19. Returning Officer to publish notice for purposes of sections 7(8)
and 25(1) of Schedule to Chief Executive Election Ordinance
20. Returning Officer to notify or declare if validly nominated candidate
has died
21. Returning Officer to notify or declare if validly nominated candidate
is disqualified
22. No poll upon death or disqualification of candidate under certain
circumstances
23. Candidate may appoint election agent
24. Returning Officer to send to other candidates notice of particulars
of election agent
25. Authorization of election expense agent to incur election expenses at
or in connection with subsector election
26. Copies of authorization of election expense agents to be made
available for public inspection
27. Chief Electoral Officer to appoint polling hours and to give notice
in Gazette
28. Chief Electoral Officer to designate polling stations and counting
stations
29. Chief Electoral Officer to designate some polling stations as special
polling stations
30. Chief Electoral Officer may arrange for voting for subsectors to
take place at polling station and to allocate polling stations to
voters and authorized representatives
31. Chief Electoral Officer to send poll cards to voters and authorized
representatives
32. Person to vote at correct polling station
33. Chief Electoral Officer may allocate special polling stations
34. Chief Electoral Officer to appoint or remove Presiding Officers, etc.
for each polling station
35. Chief Electoral Officer to supply candidates with copy of subsector
final register
36. Chief Electoral Officer to supply Returning Officer with copy of
subsector final register
37. Chief Electoral Officer to carry out other duties relating to
polling stations
38. Chief Electoral Officer to supply list of polling officers to assist
Presiding Officer
39. Presiding Officer to exhibit at polling station notice providing
information for guidance of voters
40. Returning Officer to determine no canvassing zones and no staying
zones
41. Presiding Officer to keep order in no canvassing zone and no
staying zone
42. Candidates may appoint polling agents
43. Chief Electoral Officer to delineate polling stations on map and
display map outside polling station
44. Who may enter or be present at polling station
45. What constitutes offence at polling station
46. Presiding Officer to keep order at polling station
47. Design of ballot box
48. Presiding Officer to seal ballot box before commencement of poll
49. Form of ballot papers and order of appearance of names of
candidates on ballot papers
50. Ballot paper to be issued to person only if Presiding Officer is
satisfied of person's identity
51. Questions to be asked of persons applying for ballot paper
52. Candidate or election agent may challenge person who has applied for
ballot paper or who has voted
53. Presiding Officer to issue ballot papers to voter or authorized
representative
54. Procedure for voting
55. Voter or authorized representative having left polling station without
casting vote may return to cast vote under certain circumstances
56. How ballot papers are to be marked
57. Marking of ballot papers for or by incapacitated person
58. When person is to be issued with ballot paper marked "重複" and
"TENDERED"
59. What ballot papers are to be marked "未用" and "UNUSED" by
Presiding Officer
60. What ballot papers are to be marked "損壞" and "SPOILT" by
Presiding Officer
61. Steps to be taken at polling station after close of poll
62. Presiding Officer to prepare ballot paper account
63. Returning Officer to give notice of time and place of counting of
votes to candidates
64. Candidates may appoint counting agents
65. Chief Electoral Officer to appoint or remove counting officers
66. Who may be present at counting of votes
67. What constitutes offence at counting station
68. Returning Officers to keep order at counting station
69. Ballot boxes to be delivered to counting station
70. Supervision of counting station and separate counting zones
71. Delivered ballot boxes and ballot paper accounts to be given into
charge of relevant Returning Officer
72. Returning Officer to open ballot box
73. Arrangements for counting of votes and verification of the ballot
paper account in manual counting
74. Arrangements for counting of votes and verification of the ballot
paper account in computer counting
74A. Invalid and questionable ballot papers
75. Votes to be counted in accordance with counting system in Schedule
to Chief Executive Election Ordinance
76. Result of counting of votes and re-count
77. Ballot papers the votes recorded on which are not to be counted
78. Returning Officer to make decisions on questionable ballot papers
79. Returning Officer's decision on ballot paper to be final
80. Returning Officer to declare subsector election result
81. Form in which Returning Officer is to publish result of subsector
election
82. Returning Officer to seal ballot papers in packets
83. Returning Officer to send ballot papers, accounts, packets, etc. to
Chief Electoral Officer
84. Ballot paper in custody of Chief Electoral Officer may be inspected
only on court order
85. Chief Electoral Officer to retain subsector election documents for at
least 6 months
86. Returning Officers, Presiding Officers, polling officers or counting
officers not to act as agent of candidate in same subsector
election
87. Employees of candidates not to act as electoral officers
88. Presiding Officer may perform functions through polling officers
89. Returning Officer may perform functions through Assistant Returning
Officers
90. Chief Electoral Officer to be subject to direction of Commission
91. Acts done in absence of candidates or agents not to be invalid
92. Electoral officers, candidates and agents to make declaration of
secrecy
93. Enforcement of provisions as to secrecy
94. Procedure in case of death or disqualification of candidate on
polling day but before declaration of result
95. Publication and display of notices, etc.
96. Commission to designate Chief Returning Officer (Subsectors)
97. Commission to specify forms
98. Reporting of irregularities
99. Letters that may be sent free of postage by candidates
100. Election advertisements
101. Offence of false declaration
102. (Omitted as spent)
103. (Omitted as spent)
104. (Omitted as spent)
105. (Omitted as spent)
106. (Omitted as spent)
SCHEDULE 1
SCHEDULE 2
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