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Chapter: | 541D
 | Title: | Electoral Affairs Commission (Electoral Procedure) (Legislative Council) Regulation | Gazette Number: | E.R. 2 of 2012 |
| Section: | 30 | Heading: | Chief Electoral Officer to assign polling stations for constituencies and to allocate polling stations to electors and authorized representatives | Version Date: | 02/08/2012 |
(1) The Chief Electoral Officer may assign one or more polling stations for conducting the poll for each constituency. (L.N. 84 of 2004)
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the Chief Electoral Officer may, in relation to a general election, make arrangements for voting for one or more functional constituencies and one or more geographical constituencies to take place at a GC polling station. (L.N. 84 of 2004)
(3) The Chief Electoral Officer must allocate to each elector and authorized representative a polling station or polling stations to cast the vote or votes he or she is entitled to cast at an election.
(4) Under subsection (3), for the purposes of a general election, the Chief Electoral Officer¡X
- (a) subject to paragraph (aa), must allocate to a GC elector a GC polling station that is, as far as practicable, close to his or her registered residential address to cast the vote for the geographical constituency; (L.N. 130 of 2009)
(aa) may allocate to a GC elector who will be serving a sentence of imprisonment on the polling day a dedicated polling station to cast the vote for the geographical constituency; (L.N. 130 of 2009)
(b) may allocate to a GC elector who is entitled to vote for an ordinary functional constituency either as an elector or an authorized representative, his or her GC polling station to cast the vote for the geographical constituency and that for the functional constituency;
(c) may allocate to a GC elector who is entitled to vote for an ordinary functional constituency as an elector and for another ordinary functional constituency as an authorized representative, his or her GC polling station to cast the vote for the geographical constituency and the votes for the 2 functional constituencies;
(ca) may allocate to a GC elector who is entitled to vote for a special functional constituency either as an elector or an authorized representative, a GC polling station to cast the vote for the geographical constituency and that for the functional constituency; (L.N. 65 of 2000)
(cb) may allocate to a GC elector who is entitled to vote¡X
- (i) for a special functional constituency as an elector and for another special functional constituency as an authorized representative; or
(ii) for a special functional constituency and for an ordinary functional constituency, as an elector for one and as an authorized representative for the other,
a GC polling station to cast the vote for the geographical constituency and the votes for the 2 functional constituencies. (L.N. 65 of 2000; L.N. 84 of 2004)
(5) In this section, in relation to a person, his or her GC polling station is to be construed as the polling station, or the alternative polling station in addition thereto or in substitution thereof, that person is allocated under subsection (4)(a) or (aa) or subsection (4A). (L.N. 130 of 2009)
(6) To enable the Chief Electoral Officer to perform his or her functions under this section in relation to electors, the Commissioner of Correctional Services must, upon a request by the Chief Electoral Officer, provide the following information concerning every person who is serving a sentence of imprisonment or detained by the Correctional Services Department on remand¡X
- (a) the name of the person;
(b) the number of the person¡¦s identity document;
(c) the prisoner registration number allocated by the Commissioner of Correctional Services to the person for identification purposes;
(d) the name and address of the premises in which the person is detained. (L.N. 73 of 2011)
- (a) the name of the person;
(b) the number of the person¡¦s identity document;
(c) the name and address of the premises in which the person is detained. (L.N. 73 of 2011)
(L.N. 147 of 1998; L.N. 65 of 2000)