Cap 541D s 63A Steps to be taken at the close of the poll: a polling station which is not a counting station* (Electoral Affairs Commission (Electoral Procedure) (Legislative Council) Regulation; Electoral Affairs Commission Ordinance)

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Chapter:	541D	Title:	Electoral Affairs Commission (Electoral Procedure) (Legislative Council) Regulation	Gazette Number:	E.R. 2 of 2012
Section:	63A	Heading:	Steps to be taken at the close of the poll: a polling station which is not a counting station*	Version Date:	02/08/2012

(1) As soon as practicable after the close of the poll at a small polling station or a dedicated polling station, the Presiding Officer of that polling station must, in the presence of the persons, if any, who are present within the polling station, take the following steps— (L.N. 130 of 2009)

(a) place the ballot box or boxes where that Officer and other persons who are present within the polling station can see them;

(b) cover each ballot box with a device provided for that purpose so that a ballot paper or any other material cannot be introduced into or withdrawn from the ballot box after it is covered;

(d) seal each ballot box; and

(e) make up into separate sealed packets—

(i) ballot papers which have not been issued;

(ii) the unused ballot papers;

(iii) the spoilt ballot papers; and

(iv) the marked copies of the final register.

(2) A candidate and an election agent and a polling agent of such candidate may stay in a polling station referred to in subsection (1) while it is closed for taking the steps referred to in subsection (1)(a), (b), (c), (d) and (e).
(2A) An election agent or a polling agent may not stay under subsection (2) in a dedicated polling station situated in a maximum security prison. (L.N. 130 of 2009)
(3) The Presiding Officer of the small polling station must then deliver the ballot box or boxes, the sealed packets and the ballot paper accounts prepared by that Officer to the Presiding Officer of the main counting station. (L.N. 140 of 2004)
(4) The Presiding Officer of the dedicated polling station must then deliver the ballot box or boxes, the sealed packets and the ballot paper accounts prepared by that Officer to— (L.N. 197 of 2009)

(a) the Presiding Officer of the ballot paper sorting station or the main counting station concerned; or

(b) the Returning Officer of the counting station,

as advised by the Chief Electoral Officer. (L.N. 130 of 2009; L.N. 197 of 2009)

(L.N. 84 of 2004)

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* (Amended L.N. 130 of 2009)