24. Section 67 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows:
| (1) by the repeal of sub-section (3) of that section, and the substitution therefor of the following new sub-section:
| | " (3) Subject to any such express exceptions as are or may be made by or under this Order, a person shall not let, lend, employ, hire, borrow or use, or aid or abet any other person to let, lend, employ, hire, borrow or use, any vehicle, vessel or animal, in any electoral district during the period commencing one hour before the time of the opening of the poll at any election in that district, and ending one hour after the time of the closure of such poll
| | | (a) for the purpose of the conveyance of voters to or from the poll; or |
| (b) for any other purpose, other than-
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| (2) by the substitution, for sub-section (5) of that section, of the following new sub-section:
| | " (5) Where at any poll taken in any electoral district any police officer, either of his own motion or after an investigation which he is hereby required to carry out on the complaint of any person, is satisfied that any vehicle, vessel or animal is being used in contravention of the provisions of sub-section (1) or sub-section (3), that officer shall stop and seize such vehicle, vessel or animal, and take it to a police station and detain it therein until the conclusion of the poll. ". | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts