Ceylon (Parliamentary Elections) Order In Council (Amendment)



Ceylon (Parliamentary Elections) Order In Council (Amendment)
AN ACT TO AMEND THE CEYLON (PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS) ORDER IN COUNCIL, 1946.

BE it enacted by the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka as follows :

[6th March
, 1984 ]
Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as the Ceylon (Parliamentary Elections) Order in Council (Amendment) Act, No. 8 of 1984.

Amendment of section 27 of Chapter 381.

2. Section 27 of the Ceylon (Parliamentary Elections) Order in Council, 1946, is hereby amended as follows : –

(a) by the renumbering of that section as subsection (1) of that section ; and

(b) by the addition, at the end of that section, of the following subsection :-

(2) If after the publication of a notice ordering the holding of an election to fill a vacancy in respect of any electoral district, the President is satisfied that, owing to the prevailing conditions relating to national security or public order or for any other reason, a free and fair election cannot be held, he may, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other provision of this Order-

(a) where candidates for such election have not been nominated, postpone by Order published in the Gazette the nomination day specified in the notice ordering the holding of such election, and may, by the same Order or by a subsequent Order published in the Gazette, appoint another nomination day for such election ; or

(b) where a notice has been published under section 35 (3) specifying a date of. poll for such election, postpone, by Order published in the Gazette, the date of poll and may, by the same Order or by a subsequent Order published in the Gazette, appoint another day for the taking of such poll:

Provided that no Order made under paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) shall have the effect of postponing the date of poll for such election to a date later than twelve months calculated from the date of nomination specified in the notice ordering the holding of such election.” .