Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (ELECTION COMMITTEE) REGULATION - SECT 53

Presiding Officer to issue ballot papers to voter or authorized representative

(1) At a polling station used only for polling for one subsector, the
Presiding Officer is, subject to subsection (3), to issue one ballot paper to
a person who is voting only as a voter or only as an authorized 
representative.

(2) At a polling station used for polling for more than one subsector, the
Presiding Officer is, subject to subsection (3), to issue-

   (a)  one appropriate ballot paper to a person who is voting only as a voter
        or only as an authorized representative; and

   (b)  2 appropriate ballot papers to a person who is voting as a voter and
        as an authorized representative.

(3) Subject to section 60, if a person has been issued with a ballot paper for
a subsector, a Presiding Officer must not issue another ballot paper for the
subsector to that person.

(4) Before a ballot paper is issued under this section, the name of the voter
or authorized representative, as may be applicable, as stated in the copy of
the subsector final register must be called out.

(5) Immediately before issuing the ballot paper, the Presiding  Officer must
place a line in the copy of the subsector final register across the name and
identity document number of the voter or authorized  representative to denote
that the ballot paper the person is entitled to have issued to him or her at
that polling station has been so issued.

(6) No record is to be made of the particular ballot paper issued to a voter
or authorized representative.