Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL PROCEDURE (VILLAGE REPRESENTATIVE ELECTION) REGULATION - SECT 49

Marking of ballot paper for or by incapacitated person

(1) The Presiding Officer, the Deputy Presiding Officer or any
Assistant Presiding Officer may, upon the request of an elector who claims
that he is unable to read or is incapacitated from casting his vote because of
impaired eyesight or other physical cause-

   (a)  mark a ballot paper, in a compartment provided under section  33 (1)
        in the polling station, for the elector according to the choice of the
        elector in the manner specified in section 48(1), (2) or (3), as the
        case may be; and

   (b)  fold and put the ballot paper into the correct ballot box in the
        manner specified in section 47(1)(c) and (d ), in the presence of a
        polling officer designated by the Presiding Officer, the
        Deputy Presiding Officer or the Assistant Presiding Officer, as the
        case may be, having regard to the choice (if any) of a candidate or
        his polling agent.

(2) The Presiding Officer shall cause a template to be made available upon
request by an elector.

(3) A template made available to an elector under subsection (2) shall be so
constructed as to be able to facilitate the marking of a ballot paper by an
elector suffering from impaired eyesight.