Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (ELECTION COMMITTEE) REGULATION - SECT 33

Chief Electoral Officer may allocate special polling stations

(1) A voter or authorized representative who claims to be a person with a
disability and that access to the polling station which is allocated to him or
her under section 30 is difficult for him or her due to the disability, may
apply to the Chief Electoral Officer to vote at the special polling station
designated for the subsector for which he or she is entitled to vote.

(2) An application under subsection (1) must reach the Chief Electoral Officer
at least 3 days before polling day. The application-

   (a)  may be-

        (i)    made in writing; and

        (ii)   delivered by hand or sent by post or by facsimile transmission;
               or

   (b)  may be made orally by telephone.

(3) On receiving an application under subsection (1), the Chief Electoral
Officer must, if satisfied that the application is well founded, allocate to
the voter or authorized representative an appropriate special  polling station
to cast the vote he or she is entitled to cast at the subsector election to
which the application relates.

(4) The Chief Electoral Officer must inform the applicant in a manner that
Officer considers appropriate, the result of the application, as soon as
practicable.

(5) When the Chief Electoral Officer allocates a special polling  station to a
voter or authorized representative under this section, that Officer must, as
soon as practicable, notify, in a manner that Officer considers appropriate-

   (a)  the Returning Officer;

   (b)  the Presiding Officer of the special polling station; and

   (c)  the Presiding Officer of the polling station previously allocated to
        the voter or authorized representative, of the name, identity document
        number and residential address (as they appear in the
        subsector final register) of the voter or authorized  representative.

(6) The Chief Electoral Officer must notify the persons referred to in
subsection (5) of the subsector for which the voter or authorized 
representative is entitled to vote.

(7) The Chief Electoral Officer may, if that Officer considers it appropriate
to do so in the circumstances, allocate to a voter or
authorized representative an alternative special polling station, in addition
to or in substitution of the special polling station allocated under
subsection (3), to cast the vote he or she is entitled to cast at the
subsector election.

(8) As soon as practicable after having allocated to a voter or
authorized representative an alternative special polling station under
subsection (7), the Chief Electoral Officer must, in a manner that Officer
considers appropriate-

   (a)  notify-

        (i)    the voter or authorized representative; and

        (ii)   the persons referred to in subsection (5), of the alternative
               special polling station; and

   (b)  notify-

        (i)    the persons referred to in subsection (5); and

        (ii)   the Presiding Officer of the alternative special 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.