Ceylon (Parliamentary Elections) (Amendment) Act (No. 9 of 1970)

Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

Amendment of section 52 of the principal enactment

21. Section 52 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows: -

(1) in sub-section (1) of that section

	(a) by the substitution in paragraph (o) of that sub-section, for the expression " due authority, ", of the expression " due authority; or "; and

(b) by the insertion, immediately after paragraph (o) of that sub-section, of the following new paragraph:

" (p) votes at any election knowing that he is legally incapable of, or disqualified from, so voting, ";

(2) in sub-section (1A) of that section by the substitution, for all the words from " within " to " that polling station: ", of the following:

(3) in sub-section (1BB) of that section

	(a) by the omission of paragraph (a) of that sub-section; and

	(b) by the substitution in paragraph (6) of that sub-section, for the expression " the poll is taken at such election, ", of the expression ct the result of the poll taken at such election is declared by the returning officer under this Order,".