Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTORAL PROCEDURE (VILLAGE REPRESENTATIVE ELECTION) REGULATION - SECT 81

Declaration of secrecy

(1) No person (other than a person specified in subsection (2)) shall-

   (a)  enter a polling station or a counting zone without making a
        declaration of secrecy in the specified form; or

   (b)  stay in a polling station or a counting zone without carrying with him
        the declaration of secrecy.

(2) The following persons are specified for the purposes of subsection (1)-

   (a)  an elector who comes to a polling station for the purpose of voting;

   (b)  a child accompanying an elector who comes to a polling station for the
        purpose of voting;

   (c)  a police officer on duty at a polling station or a counting  station;
        and

   (d)  a member of the Civil Aid Service on duty at a polling station or a
        counting station.

(3) A declaration of secrecy-

   (a)  by a Returning Officer shall be made in the presence of a commissioner
        defined in section 2 of the Oaths and Declarations Ordinance (
        Cap 11); or

   (b)  by any other person shall be made in the presence of-

        (i)    a Returning Officer;

        (ii)   a member of the Commission;

        (iii)  a justice of the peace;

        (iv)   a commissioner referred to in paragraph (a); or

        (v)    the Chief Electoral Officer.