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| Ceylon (Parliamentary Elections) Order In Council (Amendment) |
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AN ACT TO AMEND THE CEYLON (PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS) ORDER IN COUNCIL, 1946.
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BE it enacted by the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka as follows :-
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[26th October
, 1983 ]
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Short title.
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1. This Act may be cited as the Ceylon (Parliamentary Elections) Order in Council (Amendment) Act, No. 45 of 1983.
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Amendment of section 28 of Chapter 381.
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2. Section 28 of the Ceylon (Parliamentary Elections) Order in Council, 1946, is hereby amended by the insertion, immediately after subsection (4) of that section, of the following subsection : –
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” (4A) There shall be annexed to every nomination paper for the nomination of a candidate at an election to be held under the provisions of sub-paragraph (iii) of paragraph (d) of Article 161 of the Constitution, an oath or affirmation, as the case may be, in the form set out in the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution, taken and subscribed or made and subscribed, as the case may be, by the candidate.
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Every returning officer at such election shall reject any nomination paper which does not comply with the preceding provisions of this subsection,”.
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