Registration of Electors Act 1980 · As enacted · Part V · General
27. Repeals and
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Part II and Part III of the Ceylon (Parliamentary
Hiections) Order in Council, 1946, are hereby repealed.
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transitional provisions,
Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1), any register of electors revised under the said Order in
Council and in operation on the date immediately prior to the date of coming into operation of this Act shall continue to be in operation until the registers of electors prepared and certified under this Act shall come into operation.
Where the first General Election is to be held in the circumstances referred to in Article 162 of the Constitution, the register to be used in respect of each electoral district referred to in that Article shall be prepared on the basis of the registers of electors in operation under the said Order in
Council on the date immediately prior to the date of the dissolution of the first Parliament.