Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL PROCEDURE (VILLAGE REPRESENTATIVE ELECTION) REGULATION - SECT 28

Designation of polling stations and counting stations

(1) The Director of Home Affairs shall designate, by notice published in the
Gazette-

   (a)  a place as a polling station, or more than one place as polling 
        stations, for conducting the poll for a Village; and

   (b)  a place as a counting station for counting the votes cast at the
        polling station or all the polling stations used for polling for a
        Village.

(2) The Director of Home Affairs may designate under subsection (1)-

   (a)  any premises occupied by a Government department for official
        purposes; or

   (b)  any structure, place or premises hired under subsection (3).

(3) The Director of Home Affairs may hire any structure, place or premises, or
a part of a structure, place or premises, for use as a polling station or a
counting station.

(4) If any structure, place or premises hired under subsection (3) are used as
a polling station or a counting station, the Director of Home Affairs shall-

   (a)  make good any damage to the structure, place or premises; and

   (b)  defray any expenses incurred by any person having control over the
        structure, place or premises, due to their having been so used.

(5) The Director of Home Affairs may take such steps as he considers
appropriate, including taking out insurance, to insure against any risk of
loss or damage that may arise due to or in connection with the use of any
structure, place or premises as a polling station or a counting  station.

(6) A designation under subsection (1) may be made by reference to a map or
plan.

(7) If a designation has been made by reference to a map or plan, the Director
of Home Affairs shall display a copy of the map or plan in a prominent place
immediately outside the relevant polling station or the relevant
counting station, as the case may be.

(8) The Director of Home Affairs-

   (a)  may make arrangements for polling for one or more than one Village to
        take place at a polling station; and

   (b)  may make arrangements for counting the votes for one or more than one
        Village cast at the polling station or all the polling stations used
        for polling for the Village or each of the Villages to take place at a
        counting station.

(9) The Director of Home Affairs-

   (a)  shall allocate to each elector a polling station to cast his vote; and

   (b)  (in the case that an elector is entitled to vote in elections for more
        than one Village) may allocate to such elector one polling  station or
        more than one polling station to cast his votes.

(10) The Director of Home Affairs may, if he considers it appropriate to do so
in the circumstances, allocate to an elector an alternative polling station,
in addition to or in substitution of the polling station or any of the
polling stations, as the case may be, allocated under subsection (9), to cast
the vote or votes he is entitled to cast.

(11) For the purposes of subsection (1), one notice may be published for more
than one village.