6. Section 64 of the principal enactment as amended by Act No. 15 of 1988 is hereby further amended by the addition at the end of that section the following new subsection :
| "(5) Notwithstanding anything in the preceding provisions of this section, where the seat of a member of Parliament declared elected under Article 99A of the Constitution becomes vacant, Secretary-General of Parliament shall inform the Commissioner who shall require the Secretary of the recognized political party or the group leader of the independent group to which the member who vacated the seat belonged, to nominate a member of such party or group to fill the vacancy. |
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