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(j) generally providing for the better carrying into effect the provisions and purposes of this Ordinance or any electoral law.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), the Commission may make regulations to provide for the postponement or adjournment of—

(a) an election;

(b) the poll; or

(c) the counting of votes (“the count”),

where the Commission or any person specified in the regulations is of the opinion that the election, the poll or the count is likely to be or is being obstructed, disrupted or undermined or seriously affected by—

(i) a typhoon or other climatic condition of a serious nature;

(ii) riot or open violence or any other occurrence of public danger; or

(iii) an occurrence which appears to the Commission or the specified person to be a material irregularity relating to the election, the poll or the count.

(3) Subsection (2) shall not be construed as empowering the Commission to postpone or adjourn—

(a) a General election;

(b) in relation to—

(i) a body which is the successor to the Provisional Urban Council or the Provisional Regional Council; or

(ii) those bodies which are successors to the Provisional District Boards,

an election to elect all those members who are to be elected under any electoral law as members of that body or bodies; or

(c) the poll (at all the polling stations) or the count in respect of a General election or an election referred to in paragraph (b),

on any ground referred to in subsection (2)(ii).

(4) The Commission may by regulation provide for—

(a) the appointment of a new date—

(i) for an election, the poll or the count postponed or adjourned pursuant to subsection (2); and

(ii) which shall be not later than 2 days from the original date fixed for the election, the poll or the count, as the case may be, in the case of a postponement or adjournment on a ground referred to in subsection (2)(iii) and not later than 14 days from the original date in any other case;

(b) the procedure for the postponement or adjournment of a General election or an election referred to in subsection (3)(b) or the poll or the count in respect of a General election or such other election, on any ground referred to in subsection (2)(ii) by the authority or person who has power under any electoral law to effect the postponement or adjournment, and the procedure