(Restriction on Access to, and Maintenance of Order in, Ballot Counting Place)

(1) No one other than a member and employee of the Gu/Si/Gun election commission and its superior election commission, a ballot-counting assistant or assistant for the accounting affairs, and witness may enter the ballot-counting place: Provided, That where a person with a spectator ticket, and news gathering personnel and a reporter of the broadcast, newspaper or wire service enter the general spectators' gallery, the same shall not apply.

<Amended by Act No. 6663, Mar. 7, 2002>

(2) A member and employee of an election commission, a ballot-counting assistant or assistant for the accounting affairs, and witness, when entering
and leaving the ballot-counting place, shall wear or attach a mark as prescribed by Regulations of the National Election Commission, and shall not transfer or concede the mark to another person.

<Amended by Act No. 6663, Mar. 7, 2002>

(3) The chairman or members of the Gu/Si/Gun election commission, where deemed that the order of the ballot-counting place is seriously disturbed
and thereby it is impossible to proceed with fair ballot counting, may request the assistance of a police officer in uniform or the chief of a police station to maintain the order of the ballot-counting place.  

(4) A police officer or the chief of a police station, upon receiving the request for assistance as provided in paragraph (3), shall immediately comply therewith.

(5) The police officer or the chief of the police station who enters the ballot-counting place at the request as provided in paragraph (3) shall follow the instructions of the chairman of the Gu/Si/Gun election commission, and when the order is restored or the chairman requests, he/she shall immediately withdraw from the ballot-counting place.

(6) Except as provided in paragraph (3), no one shall carry any arms, deadly weapons or explosives into a ballot-counting place.