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[Subsidiary]
CAP. 381] Legislative Council (Electoral Provisions)
(Procedure) Regulations
[1988 Ed.
(2) Where any poll is abandoned under subregulation (1), the returning officer shall, without taking any step for the verification or counting of the ballot papers, seal up together all the ballot papers but otherwise the provisions of these regulations as to the production, retention and destruction of ballot papers and other documents relating to any poll at an election shall, so far as practicable, apply to any such documents.
PART IX
SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS
Penalty for officers acting as agents
58. Any—
(a) returning officer; or
(b) officer appointed under regulation 20(1)(a) or 42,
appointed for the purposes of an election who at that election acts as an election agent, a polling agent or a counting agent commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $5,000.
Offences in polling stations
59. (1) Subject to subregulation (2), any person who speaks to any elector or authorized representative within the boundaries of any polling station commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $500.
(2) Subregulation (1) does not apply to—
(a) the returning officer;
(b) an officer appointed under regulation 20(1)(a);
(c) police officers on duty at any polling station.
(3) Any person who
(a) without the special permission of the presiding officer, takes any photographs;
(b) canvasses; or
(c) displays any poster,
within the boundaries of any polling station commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $500.
Prohibitions against employees of candidates acting as officers under these regulations
60. No person shall be appointed to act in any official capacity (other than as an agent) under these regulations for the purposes of an election who is or has been employed by or on behalf of a candidate in such election.