4. Amendment of Article 31 of the Constitution

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

Article 31 of the Constitution is hereby amended as follows:-

(1)

by the insertion immediately after paragraph (1) of that Article, of the following new paragraph:-

“(2) No person who has been twice elected to the office of President by the People, shall be qualified thereafter to be elected to such office by the People.”;

(2)

in paragraph (3A) of that Article:-

(a)

(i)

by the substitution in sub-paragraph (a)(i) of that paragraph, for the words

“commencement of his current term of office, by Proclamation, declare his intention”, of the words “commencement of his first term of office, by Proclamation, declare his intention”; and

(ii)

by the repeal of the proviso to sub-paragraph (a)(i);

(b)

in sub-paragraph (d) of that paragraph, by the substitution for the words “for a term of six years” wherever those words appear in that sub-paragraph, of the words “ for a term of five years”.

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