Local Authorities Elections (Amendment) Act 2012 · As enacted
45. Replacement of section 65A of the principal enactment
Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.
Official translationFrom Department of Government Printing, unchanged
Section 65A of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor :—
65A. (1) In the case of a multi member ward.
The candidates to be declared as elected members of that ward, shall be based on the number of votes polled by each recognized political party and independent group which contested the election in such ward. The counting officer shall declare first the candidate of the recognized political party or the independent group, who or whcih as the case may be, who polled the highest number of votes, an elected member for that ward and the balance number of members required to be elected as members of that ward, being declared accordingly.
If due to any reason whatsoever, a single recognized political party or independent group alone has contested at an election in any multi member ward, the candidates to be declared elected as members of such multi member ward shall be nominated by the secretary of the recognized political party or the leader of the independent group, as the case may be, from among the persons whose names appear in the list of additional persons included in the nomination paper submitted by such recognized political party or independent group, as the case may be.”.