43.
| (1) The presiding officer at any polling station may in his discretion. and. if required so to do by a polling agent, shall, require any voter, before he is given a ballot paper, to make and subscribe all or any of the declarations in forms E, F, G and H set out in the First Schedule to this Act. Every such declaration shall be exempt from stamp duty. |
|
| (2) If any person refuses to make any such declaration, the presiding officer may refuse to give him a ballot paper. |
|
| (3) If any person willfully makes a false statement in any such declaration, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and imprisonment. |
|
|
Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts