31. Amendment of section 39A of the principal enactment

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

Section 39A of the principal enactment as amended by Law, No. 24 of 1977, is hereby further amended in subsection (1) of that section as follows :—

(1)

by the substitution for the words “in the electoral list of that area”, of the words “in the electoral list of any ward of that area,”; and

(2)

by the repeal of paragraph (c) of that subsection and the substitution therefor of the following paragraph :—

“(c)

the number of the ward;

(cc)

the number of the polling districts."