12. Amendment of section 38 of the principal enactment

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

Section 38 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows:—

(1)

in subsection (1) thereof, substitution for the words

“voters in the Third Schedule to this Act, but” of the words “voters, but”;

(2)

in subsection (2) thereof—

(a)

in paragraph (a) of that subsection, substitution for the words, “voters in the Third

Schedule to the principal enactment may be”

of the words “voters may be ”;

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(b)

in paragraph (b) thereof, by the substitution for the words “form set out in the Fourth

Schedule to this Act ” of the words “form prescribed by law”.