4. Amendment of section 4 of the principal enactment

Section 4 of the principal enactment is hereby amended by the repeal of subsection (1) of that section, and the substitution therefor of the following subsection :—

“(1) The Commissioner may appoint by name or by office for each district in Sri Lanka, a fit and proper person to be or to act as district returning officer and one other person to be or to act as the returning officer for each of the local authority area or of any particular local authority, as the case may be, in a district, and such number of other persons as may become necessary to be or to act as assistant returning officers for that district.”.