Registration of Electors Act 1980 · As enacted · Part II · Registering Officers, Polling Divisions
10. Preparation of
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As soon as may be after the publication of the
Proclamation under Article 97 of the Constitution and after the publication of the notice referred to in section 9(1), the registering officer of each electoral district specified in such
Proclamation shall prepare, or cause to be vrepared, and certify a register for such electoral district, so however, that every name appearing in a register in operation or in those parts of a register in operation immediately prior to the publication of such Proclamation which relate to the area comprised in such electoral district shall appear in the register so prepared and certified together with the qualify-ing address under which such name so appeared in the register in operation.
The registering officer shall, subject to the provisions of section 7, enter or cause to be entered in a register prepared under subsection (1), the names of persons who although their names are not in the register in operation or those parts of a register in operation referred to in that subsection appear to him to be qualified to have their names entered in the register so prepared.
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Before the certification of the register prepared for any electoral district under subsection (1), application may be made to the registering officer of that electoral district for the correction of an existing entry relating to the applicant in such register, and where such application is made, the registering officer shall, if he is satisfied after such inquiry as he deems fit that the entry relates to the applicant and is erroneous or defective in any particular, cause the necessary amendment in the entry to be made.
Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to prohibit the registering officer, before certifying any register prepared under subsection (1), from correcting any clerical error which appears to him to have been made therein.
In this section, “register in operation” means any register of electors for the time being in operation in terms of the Ceylon (Parliamentary Elections) Order in Councn,
1946.