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Development Councils Elections Act (No. 20 of 1981) - Sect 68

Certain acts prohibited on polling day

68.
(1) No person shall, on any date on which a poll lamp taken at a polling station, do am of the fallowing acts within the precincts, or a distance of half a kilometer of the entrance, of that polling station:-
(a) canvassing for votes ;
(b) soliciting the vote of any elector;
(c) persuading any elector not to for any particular recognized political party or independent group;
(d) persuading any elector not to vote at the election;
(e) distributing or exhibiting any handbill, placard, poster, drawing, photograph or notice relating to the election (other than any official handbill, placard, poster or notice) or any symbol allotted under section 20 to any recognized political party or independent group.
(2) No person shall, on any date on which a poll is taken at any polling station
(a) use or operate, within or at the entrance of a polling station or in any public or private place in the neighborhood thereof, any megaphone or loudspeaker or other apparatus for magnifying or reproducing the human voice, or
(b) shout or otherwise act in a disorderly manner within or at the entrance of a polling station or in any public or private place in the neighborhood thereof,


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