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This Act may he cited as the Provincial Councils
Elections (Amendment) Act, No. 5 of 2004.
No. 2 of 1988 (hereinafter referred to as the “principal enactment”) is hereby amended as follows :—
by the repeal of subsection (1) of that section and (2)
the substitution therefore of the following subsection :—
“(1) Every Provinciz! Council shall consist of such number of members as may be specified by the
President in an Order made under section 2 of the
Provincial Councils Act, No. 42 of 1987.”;
by the substitution in paragraph (4) of subsection (3) of that section for the words “1000 square kilometres.” of the words “1000 square kilometres :
Provided that, the number of members determined by the Commissioner in terms of this subsection shall correspond to the number of members specified by the President by an Order made under section 2 of the Provincial Councils Act, No.
42 of 1987, less two members to be declared elected in terms of subsection (2) of section 61A.”.
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Short title.
Amendment of section 3 of Act,
No. 2 of 1988.
Amendment 2
Provincial Councils Elections (Amendment)
Act, No. 5 of 2004
Section 22 of the principal enactment is hereby amended in subsection (1) of that section by the substitution in paragraph (c) thereof for the words “the date of poll, such date being any day other than”, of the words “the date of poll, such date being a date falling on a Saturday or any day other than”,
The determination made by the Commissioner under section 3 and published in the Gazette Extraordinary
No. 1319/4 of December 16, 2003 is hereby rescinded.
In the event of any inconsistency between the Sinhala and Tamil texts of this Act, the Sinhala text shall prevail.