Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL PROCEDURE (VILLAGE REPRESENTATIVE ELECTION) REGULATION - SECT 47

Voting procedure

(1) Subject to section 49(1), when an elector is issued with a ballot paper or
ballot papers, he shall, without undue delay-

   (a)  immediately go into a compartment provided under section 33(1) in the
        polling station;

   (b)  mark the ballot paper or ballot papers in the compartment;

   (c)  fold the ballot paper or each of the ballot papers so that the marked
        side is inside before leaving the compartment;

   (d)  put the folded ballot paper or each of the folded ballot papers into
        the correct ballot box;

   (e)  return-

        (i)    the chop issued to him under section 45; and

        (ii)   the cardboard provided to him under subsection (2), to any
               polling officer in the polling station; and

   (f)  notwithstanding section 37(1), leave the polling station as soon as he
        has put the ballot paper or ballot papers into the ballot box or
        ballot boxes and returned the chop and the cardboard.

(2) An elector-

   (a)  shall, when he is issued with a ballot paper or ballot papers, be
        provided with a cardboard in a colour determined by the Director of
        Home Affairs so as to indicate the number of ballot papers issued to
        him; and

   (b)  shall carry with him the cardboard before it is returned under
        subsection (1)(e).

(3) Except where it is provided otherwise in this Regulation, no person shall
remove a ballot paper from a polling station.