16. Amendment of section 19 of the principal enactment

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

Section 19 of the principal enactment as last amended by Law, No. 24 of 1977, is hereby further amended as follows :—

(1)

in subsection (1) of that section, by the repeal of paragraph (a) of that subsection and the substitution therefor of the following paragraph :—

“(a)

in more than one electoral list, whether of the wards of the same electoral area or of different electoral areas; or”;

(2)

in subsection (3) of that section, by the substitution in paragraph (b) of that subsection, for the words

“in which the electoral area”, of the words “in which the ward”.

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