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Ceylon (Parliamentary Elections) (Amendment) Act (No. 9 of 1970) - Sect 4

Amendment of section 22A of the principal enactment

4. Section 22A of the principal enactment is hereby amended by the insertion, immediately after subsection (2) of that section, of the following new sub-sections:
"(2A) Where, by virtue of the operation of the preceding provisions of this section, the register of electors for any electoral district has to be prepared in both the official language and a language of the minority, then, such register may be so prepared in separate parts in each such ^ language, and such parts may be subsequently bound together to form one register.
(2B) The entry made in any register in the official language shall prevail over the corresponding entry, if any, made in such register in any other language; and accordingly in the event of any dispute arising as to the correctness of any such entry such dispute shall be determined by reference to the entry so made in the official language.".


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