Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL PROCEDURE (VILLAGE REPRESENTATIVE ELECTION) REGULATION - SECT 72

Postponement or adjournment of polling at all polling stations or counting of votes at all counting stations

PART 8

POSTPONEMENT OR ADJOURNMENT OF ELECTION PROCEEDINGS

(1) The Commission may direct-

   (a)  the postponement of the poll for an election if, before the
        commencement of polling, the Commission is of the opinion that the
        poll; or

   (b)  the postponement of the counting of the votes in respect of the poll
        for an election if, before the commencement of counting, the
        Commission is of the opinion that the counting, is likely to be
        obstructed, disrupted, undermined or seriously affected by-

   (c)  a typhoon or other climatic condition of a serious nature;

   (d)  riot or open violence or any other occurrence of public danger; or

   (e)  an occurrence which appears to the Commission to be a material
        irregularity relating to the election, the poll or the counting.

(2) The Commission may direct-

   (a)  the adjournment of the poll for an election if, during the polling,
        the Commission is of the opinion that the poll; or

   (b)  the adjournment of the counting of the votes in respect of the poll
        for an election if, during the counting, the Commission is of the
        opinion that the counting, is likely to be or is being obstructed,
        disrupted, undermined or seriously affected by-

   (c)  a typhoon or other climatic condition of a serious nature;

   (d)  riot or open violence or any other occurrence of public danger; or

   (e)  an occurrence which appears to the Commission to be a material
        irregularity relating to the election, the poll or the counting.

(3) Subject to section 45(3), an elector who has cast a vote at a poll
adjourned under subsection (2) is not entitled and shall not be allowed to
cast a vote again at the resumed polling.