5. Amendment of section 12 of the principal enactment

Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.

Section 12 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows:—

(1)

in paragraph (ii) of the last proviso to subsection (1) of that section, by the substitution for the words,

“by a name and an alphabetical letter in English.”, of the words, “by a name and a number.”;

(2)

in subsection (2) of that section –

(a)

by the substitution for the words, “polling districts” and “Polling district” wherever those words appear in that subsection, of the words, respectively as “polling districts”

and “polling district”; and

(b)

by the substitution in paragraph (c) for the word, “district”, of the words, “polling district”;

(3)

by the substitution in subsection (2A) of that section, for the words, “each polling district” of the words, “each polling district”; and

(4)

by the substitution in subsection (2B) of that section, for the words, “division of a polling area into polling districts” of the words, “division of a polling area into polling districts”.

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