Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION (ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) (ELECTION COMMITTEE) REGULATION - SECT 92

Electoral officers, candidates and agents to make declaration of secrecy

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(1) Every electoral officer (within the meaning of paragraph (d),

        (e), (g) or (h) of the definition of "electoral officer" in section 2(1) 
of the Chief Executive Election Ordinance ( Cap 569)), every person (other
than such an electoral officer) who is appointed under that Ordinance or the
Ordinance to perform functions at or in connection with a subsector  election,
or every person authorized by or under this Regulation to attend at a
polling station except as a voter or an authorized representative must, before
entering the polling station, make a declaration of secrecy on the
specified form.

(2) Every candidate, counting agent or counting officer or other person
(except as a member of the public under section 66(6)) authorized by or under
this Regulation to attend at the counting of votes must, before entering the
counting station, make a declaration of secrecy on the specified form.

(3) The Returning Officer is to make the declaration in the presence of a
Commissioner for Oaths. Any other person may make the declaration in the
presence of the Returning Officer, a Commissioner for Oaths, a member of the
Commission, the Chief Electoral Officer or a person whose official designation
is that of a deputy to the Chief Electoral  Officer.

(4) Every Returning Officer or other officer or any other person attending at
a polling station or the counting of votes must maintain and assist in
maintaining the secrecy of the ballot.

(5) Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply to a police officer or a member of
the Civil Aid Service on duty at a polling station or a counting  station.