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AN ACT TO AMEND THE PROVINCIAL COUNCILS ELECTIONS ACT, NO. 2 OF 1988
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BE it enacted by the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka as follows:
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short title.
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1. This Act may be cited as the Provincial Councils Elections (Amendment) Act, No. 55 of 1988.
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Amendment of section 58 of Act No. 2 of 1988.
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2. Section 58 of the Provincial Councils Elections Act, No. 2 of 1988, is hereby amended in subsection (1) of that section as follows:
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(1) by the repeal of paragraphs (b) and (c) of that sub- section, and the substitution of the following paragraph therefor :
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” (b) The total number of votes polled at the election is hereinafter referred to as the ” relevant number of votes. ” ; and
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(2) in paragraph (e) of that subsection, by the omission of the words ” (other than those parties and groups disqualified under paragraph (b)) “.
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