29. Interpreta-tion,

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

“Commissioner of Elections means the Commissioner of

Elections aopointed under Article 103 of the Consti-tution of the Democratic Socialist Republie of Sri

Lanka ;

“elector” means a person who is entitled to be registered as an elector under this Act;

“electoral district” means an electoral distcict specified in a Proclamation made under Article 97 of the

Constitution ;

“local authority” means any Municipal Council, Urban

Council, Town Council or Village Council and includes any Authority created and established by or under any law to exercise, pertorm and discharge powers, duties and functions corresponding to or similar to the powers, duties and functions exercised, performed and discharged by any such

Council

;

“public corporatiion” means any corporation, board or other body which was or is established by or under any written law other than the Companies Ordi-nance, with funds or capital wholly or partly pro-vided by the Government by way of grant, loan or otherwise

;

“register of electors” means the register of electors for any electoral district ; and

“revising officer”? means—

in relation to a claimant, the District Judge of the

in relation to an objector, the District Judge of the