Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL PROCEDURE (VILLAGE REPRESENTATIVE ELECTION) REGULATION - SECT 73

Adjournment of polling at a particular polling station or counting of votes at a particular counting station

(1) The Presiding Officer appointed for a polling station may, after
consulting the Returning Officer, direct the adjournment of a poll for an
election at that polling station if, during the polling, the Presiding Officer
is of the opinion that the poll is likely to be or is being obstructed,
disrupted, undermined or seriously affected by-

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

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

   (c)  an occurrence which appears to the Presiding Officer to be a material
        irregularity relating to the election, the poll or the counting
        concerned.

(2) The Returning Officer may direct the adjournment of the counting of the
votes in respect of the poll for an election at a counting  station if, during
the counting, that Officer is of the opinion that the counting is likely to be
or is being obstructed, disrupted, undermined or seriously affected by-

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

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

   (c)  an occurrence which appears to that Officer to be a material
        irregularity relating to the election, the poll or the counting.