Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (ELECTION COMMITTEE) REGULATION - SECT 68

Returning Officers to keep order at counting station

(1) The Chief Returning Officer (Subsectors), and the Returning  Officers in
charge of a counting zone of a central counting station, must keep order at
the central counting station.

(2) The Returning Officer who supervises a counting station must keep order at
the counting station.

(3) If a person-

   (a)  misconducts himself or herself at or in the vicinity of-

        (i)    a central counting station, the Chief Returning Officer
               (Subsectors) may; or

        (ii)   a counting station that is not a central counting station, the
               Returning Officer who supervises the counting station may;

   (b)  at or in the vicinity of a counting station, fails to obey a lawful
        order of the Returning Officer-

        (i)    who supervises the counting station; or

        (ii)   in charge of a counting zone of the counting station, that
               Officer may, order the person to leave the counting station or
               the vicinity of the counting station, as the case may be,
               immediately.

(4) The Chief Returning Officer (Subsectors) or the Returning  Officer who
supervises a counting station may order a person to leave the counting station
immediately if that Officer reasonably considers that, having regard to the
conduct of the person, the person's presence at the counting station is for a
purpose other than that for which such presence is permitted or authorized.

(5) If a person fails to leave when ordered to do so under subsection (3) or
(4), the person may be removed by a police officer or by a person authorized
in writing by the Chief Returning Officer (Subsectors) or the
Returning Officer, as may be appropriate.

(6) A person who is removed under subsection (5) may not enter the relevant
counting station again on that day unless the Officer who ordered his or her
removal permits him or her to do so.

(7) For the purpose of subsection (3) but without limiting it, a person
misconducts himself or herself if the person disrupts the counting of votes at
the counting station, or disturbs or causes inconvenience to any person in the
counting station.