Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (ELECTION COMMITTEE) REGULATION - SECT 37

Chief Electoral Officer to carry out other duties relating to polling stations

(1) The Chief Electoral Officer must provide at each polling  station
sufficient compartments as that Officer considers necessary to enable voters
and authorized representatives to mark ballot papers, screened from
observation.

(2) The Chief Electoral Officer must supply to each Presiding  Officer, the
number of ballot papers the Chief Electoral Officer considers necessary for
the subsector or subsectors for which the polling station is to be used for
polling. The Chief Electoral Officer must ensure that the name of any deceased
or disqualified candidate regarding whom notice under section 20(1) or 21(1)
is given or declarations under section 20(3) or 21(3) are made, and other
information relating to that candidate, if printed on the ballot papers, are
crossed out by stamping the words "已故"
and "DECEASED" or "喪失資格" and "DISQUALIFIED", as the case may require.

(3) The Chief Electoral Officer must also supply to the Presiding  Officer a
copy of the part of the subsector final register relating to that subsector or
subsectors.

(4) The copy may contain the identity document numbers of the voters and
authorized representatives and such other additional particulars or
information as the Chief Electoral Officer thinks fit to include.

(5) The form in which the copy is supplied may be a printed form, a form which
is capable of being read by a computer or any other form determined by the
Chief Electoral Officer.

(6) The Chief Electoral Officer must provide at each polling  station-

   (a)  materials; and

   (b)  if the polling station is to be used for polling for a
        subsector by-election in relation to which the Commission has made a
        direction under section 56(2), chops bearing the mark "P", with or
        without any design, that are necessary to enable voters and
        authorized representatives to mark the ballot papers.

(7) The Chief Electoral Officer must do other acts and things as that Officer
considers necessary for holding the poll effectively.