Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (ELECTION COMMITTEE) REGULATION - SECT 83

Returning Officer to send ballot papers, accounts, packets, etc. to Chief Electoral Officer

(1) As soon as practicable after preparing the notice of the result of the
subsector election, the Returning Officer must send to the Chief
Electoral Officer-

   (a)  the ballot paper accounts, verification of the ballot paper  account
        and the re-verification of the ballot paper account;

   (b)  the statement referred to in section 78(7);

   (c)  subject to subsection (2), the sealed packets made up under
        section 82;

   (d)  a copy of the notice of the result of the subsector election;

   (e)  all nomination forms;

   (f)  notices of withdrawal of candidature, if any;

   (g)  notices of appointment of election agents, polling agents and
        counting agents and copies of authorizations of
        election expense agents; and

   (h)  any other document relating to the subsector election specified by the
        Commission.

(2) At a central counting station where the votes are counted with the use of
a computer, the sealed packets made up under section 82 are to be sent by the
Chief Returning Officer (Subsectors) to the Chief Electoral  Officer as soon
as practicable after they have been made up.