Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL PROCEDURE (VILLAGE REPRESENTATIVE ELECTION) REGULATION - SECT 59

Order at counting station

(1) The Returning Officer shall keep order at the counting station concerned.

(2) No person shall-

   (a)  film;

   (b)  take a photograph; or

   (c)  make any audio or video recording, in a counting zone without the
        express permission of a member of the Commission, the Director of Home
        Affairs or the Returning Officer.

(3) No person shall, in a counting station or its vicinity-

   (a)  fail to comply with a lawful direction given by the Returning 
        Officer;

   (b)  use a sound amplifying system or device for any purpose without lawful
        authority or the express permission of the Returning Officer;

   (c)  without reasonable excuse, display any propaganda material relating
        to-

        (i)    any candidate or his candidate number;

        (ii)   a body any member of which is standing as a candidate in the
               election concerned or a political body; or

        (iii)  the election of Village Representatives;

   (d)  disrupt the counting of the votes;

   (e)  disturb or cause inconvenience to any person except in the execution
        of his duty; or

   (f)  otherwise misconduct himself.

(4) If-

   (a)  a person contravenes subsection (2) or (3); or

   (b)  the Returning Officer reasonably considers that, having regard to the
        conduct of a person, the person's presence at the counting station is
        for a purpose other than that for which the person is entitled or
        authorized to be so present, the Returning Officer may-

   (c)  require the person to produce his identity document for inspection;
        and

   (d)  order the person to leave the counting station or its vicinity, as the
        case may be, immediately.

(5) No person shall fail to produce his identity document when required to do
so under subsection (4).

(6) If a person fails to leave when ordered to do so under subsection (4), he
may be removed by a police officer or by a person authorized in writing by the
Returning Officer who ordered him to leave.

(7) No person who is removed under subsection (6) shall enter the
counting station or its vicinity again, before the counting of the votes at
the counting station is finished, without the express permission of the
Returning Officer who ordered him to leave.