Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsRestriction on public meetings
| 70. No public meeting shall be held in any Development Council area during the period commencing forty-eight hours before the date of the poll and ending one week after the members of a Development Council in respect of which a poll has been taken on such date have been declared elected by the returning officer. Every person who contravenes any of the preceding, provisions shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding one month, or to both such fine and imprisonment. |