Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (ELECTION COMMITTEE) REGULATION,ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (ELECTION COMMITTEE) REGULATION - SECT 63

Returning Officer to give notice of time and place of counting of votes to candidates

(Past version on 12/10/2001).

PART 4

COUNTING OF VOTES: SUBSECTOR ELECTIONS

(1) Subject to subsection (6), the Returning Officer is to determine the time
at which the counting of the votes in respect of a subsector election is to
begin.

(2) The time determined under subsection (1) must be a time after the poll has
closed at all the polling stations at which polling for that subsector was
conducted.

(3) The Returning Officer must give notice in writing to each candidate for a
subsector of the time determined for the counting of the votes for that
subsector to begin and the place at which the counting is to take place.

(4) Notice under subsection (3) must be given at least 1 working day before
polling day. (L.N. 114 of 2006)

(5) If the poll for a subsector is adjourned under Schedule 1, the counting of
the votes for that subsector is to stand postponed.

(6) If the counting of votes stands postponed under subsection (5), the Chief
Electoral Officer is to determine a time for the counting to begin and the
place at which it is to take place. The time must be after the adjourned poll
for the subsector is resumed and after the close of that poll. The
Returning Officer is to give notice to each candidate for the relevant
subsector of the time and place.

(7) A notice required to be given to a candidate under this section may be
given to the election agent or counting agent of the candidate instead of to
the candidate.