Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (ELECTION COMMITTEE) REGULATION - SECT 31

Chief Electoral Officer to send poll cards to voters and authorized representatives

(1) Subject to subsections (3) and (4), for every contested
subsector election, the Chief Electoral Officer must, at least 5 days before
polling day, send a poll card to each voter and authorized  representative.

(2) A poll card need not be sent to a voter or authorized  representative if-

   (a)  the Chief Electoral Officer is satisfied, having regard to information
        received from the Registrar of Births and Deaths, that the voter or
        authorized representative is dead; or

   (b)  the Chief Electoral Officer is satisfied that the voter's or
        authorized representative's address as recorded in the
        subsector final  register-

        (i)    does not exist;

        (ii)   refers to a building that has been demolished; or

        (iii)  refers to a building that is not built at the time poll cards
               are to be sent.

(3) A poll card need not be sent under subsection (1) to a corporate voter.

(4) If the Chief Electoral Officer receives notice of the substitution or
replacement of an authorized representative within the 5 days preceding
polling day, that Officer need not send a poll card to the substitute or
replacement authorized representative. The Chief Electoral Officer must inform
that substitute or replacement authorized  representative of the
polling station allocated to him or her in a manner that Officer thinks fit.

(5) The Chief Electoral Officer must state in the poll card the
polling station or polling stations at which the voter or authorized 
representative must cast his or her vote or votes.

(6) As soon as practicable after having allocated to a voter or
authorized representative an alternative polling station under section  30
(4), the Chief Electoral Officer must, in a manner that Officer considers
appropriate-

   (a)  notify-

        (i)    the voter or authorized representative;

        (ii)   the Returning Officer; and

        (iii)  the Presiding Officer of the polling station previously
               allocated to the voter or authorized representative, of the
               alternative polling station; and

   (b)  notify-

        (i)    the Returning Officer;

        (ii)   the Presiding Officer of the polling station previously
               allocated to the voter or authorized representative; and

        (iii)  the Presiding Officer of the alternative polling station,
of the name, identity document number and residential address (as they appear
in the subsector final register) of the voter or authorized  representative
and the subsector for which the voter or authorized  representative is
entitled to vote.

(7) In this section, "corporate voter" (團體投票人) has the meaning
assigned to it by section 11(1) of the Schedule to the Chief Executive 
Election Ordinance ( Cap 569).

"corporate voter" (團體投票人)