Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (ELECTION COMMITTEE) REGULATION - SECT 54

Procedure for voting

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(1) Subject to section 55, a voter or authorized representative who has been
issued with a ballot paper must immediately cast his or her vote. When a voter
or authorized representative is issued with a ballot paper, he or she must
immediately go into a voting compartment and mark the ballot paper as
appropriate. After marking the ballot paper, the voter or
authorized representative must fold the ballot paper so that the marked side
is inside and put the folded ballot paper into the ballot box.

(2) A voter or authorized representative must leave the polling  station as
soon as he or she has put the ballot paper into the ballot box.

(3) A person must not put anything other than a marked ballot paper into the
ballot box.

(4) Except where it is provided otherwise in this Regulation, a person must
not remove a ballot paper from a polling station. A person who contravenes
this subsection commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 2 and to
imprisonment for 6 months.

(5) In this section, "voting compartment" (投票間) means a compartment
provided under section 37(1) for the purpose of marking ballot papers.

"voting compartment" (投票間)