Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL PROCEDURE (VILLAGE REPRESENTATIVE ELECTION) REGULATION - SECT 54

Ballot paper account

(1) The Presiding Officer shall prepare a statement ("ballot paper account")
which complies with subsection (2) and, at a polling station used for polling
for more than one Village, prepare a separate ballot  paper account for each
Village.

(2) The ballot paper account prepared under subsection (1) shall-

   (a)  be in the specified form; and

   (b)  show the number of ballot papers supplied under section 33(2) for the
        Village concerned (stating whether they are ballot papers to be used
        for an election for an Existing Village, an Indigenous Village or a
        Composite Indigenous Village) and account for those ballot papers
        under the following heads-

        (i)    the number of ballot papers estimated by the Presiding Officer
               to be in the ballot box or ballot boxes;

        (ii)   the number of ballot papers which have not been issued;

        (iii)  the number of unused ballot papers; and

        (iv)   the number of spoilt ballot papers.