1987 Ed.]
Electoral Provisions (Procedure) Regulations
[CAP. 367
B 13
32. (1) A ballot paper shall not be delivered to an elector unless the elector produces to the polling officer either his identity card or such other document showing his identity card number and name as will satisfy the polling officer that the elector is the person named in the register whom he claims to be.
(2) Immediately before delivery of a ballot paper to an elector-
[Subsidiary]
Issue of ballot papers.
(a) the name of the elector as stated in the copy of the register
shall be called out; and
(b) a line shall be placed in the register against the identity card number and name of the elector to denote that he has received a ballot paper, but without showing the particular ballot paper which he has received.
33. (1) Subject to regulation 34, the elector, on receiving the ballot paper, shall forthwith proceed into one of the compartments in the polling station and there secretly mark his paper and fold it up so as to conceal his vote and put the ballot paper, so folded up, into the ballot box in the presence of the presiding officer.
(2) The elector shall vote without undue delay, and shall leave the polling station as soon as he has put his ballot paper into the ballot box.
34. The presiding officer, on the application of
(a) an elector who is incapacitated by blindness or other physical cause from voting in the manner directed by these regulations; or
(b) an elector who declares orally that he is unable to read,
shall cause the vote of the elector to be marked on a ballot paper in the manner directed by the elector and the ballot paper to be placed in the ballot box.
35. If a person, representing himself to be a particular elector entered on the register, applies for a ballot paper after another person has voted as such elector, the applicant shall, upon satisfactorily answering the questions set out in regulation 30(1), be entitled to mark a ballot paper in the same manner as any other elector, but before the ballot paper (in these regulations referred to as "a tendered ballot paper") is delivered to the applicant it shall be endorsed on the front with the word "TENDERED".
36. An elector who has inadvertently dealt with his ballot paper in such a manner that it cannot be conveniently used as a ballot paper may, on delivering it to the presiding officer and proving the fact of the inadvertence to the satisfaction of such officer, obtain another ballot paper in the place of the ballot paper so delivered up (in these regulations referred to as "a spoilt ballot paper"), and the spoilt ballot paper shall be immediately cancelled.
Method of
voting.
Votes marked by presiding officer.
Tendered ballot papers.
Spoilt ballot papers.