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Ceylon (Parliamentary Elections) (Amendment) Act (No. 9 of 1970) - Sect 33

Amendment of the Parliamentary Election Petition Blues

33. The Parliamentary Election Petition Rules, 1946, set out in the Third Schedule to the principal enactment are hereby amended as follows:
(a) in rule 4 thereof
(i) by the omission of paragraphs (1)5 (2) and (3) of that rule; and
(ii) by the substitution, for the marginal note to that rule, of the following new marginal note:
(b) by the omission of rule 5 thereof;
(c) in rule 12 thereof, by the substitution, for paragraph (2) of that rule, of the following new paragraph:
" (2) The security shall be an amount of not less than five thousand rupees in respect of the first charge constituting a distinct ground on which the petitioner relies, and a further amount of not less than two thousand five hundred rupees in respect of each additional charge constituting any such ground. The security required by this rule shall be given by a deposit of money. ";
(d) by the insertion, immediately after rule 26 thereof, of the following new rule:-
26A. An election petition shall not be abated by reason only of a dissolution of Parliament, and accordingly in the event of such dissolution such petition shall be heard or continue to be heard, and determined as though Parliament had not been dissolved but was in session."; and
(e) in rule 33 thereof, by the substitution, for paragraph (1) of that rule, of the following new paragraph: -
" (1) Costs shall be taxed by the Registrar upon the order by which the costs are payable in such manner as shall be specified in such order; and costs when taxed may be recovered in the same manner as the costs of an action at law. ".


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