Registers Of Parliamentary Electors (Special Provisions)
Registers Of Parliamentary Electors (Special Provisions)
Registers Of Parliamentary Electors (Special Provisions)
AN ACT TO MAKE SPECIAL PROVISIONS REGARDING THE CERTIFICATION AND THE COMMENCEMENT OF REVISION OF CERTAIN REGISTERS OF PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORS
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Short title.
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1. This Act may be cited as the Registers of Parliamentary Electors (Special Provisions) Act, No. 1 of 1960.
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Certification of certain registers of electors after 1959 revision.
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2. For the resolution of doubts it is hereby declared that, upon the completion of the 1959 revision of the registers of electors for the electoral districts specified in the Schedule to this Act, those registers may be certified under section 20 of the Order in Council of 1946, after the enactment of this Act, and that such certification shall be valid notwithstanding that the date of such certification is subsequent to the last date allowed by section 16 of that Order for the commencement of the 1960 revision.
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Commencement of 1960 revision of certain registers of electors.
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3. Notwithstanding that the 1960 revision of the registers of electors for the electoral districts specified in the Schedule to this Act should, as required by section 16 of the Order in Council of 1946, have been commenced on or before June 1, 1960, the Commissioner shall cause the 1960 revision of those registers to be commenced, and notification in the Gazette as to such commencement to be published, forthwith after those registers are certified upon the completion of the 1959 revision; and the revision commenced as provided in this section shall, for all purposes, be deemed to be the 1960 revision of those registers.
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Interpretation. Cap. 381.
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4. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-
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” Commissioner” has the same meaning as in the Order in Council of 1946;
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” Order in Council of 1946″ means the Ceylon (Parliamentary Elections) Order in Council, 1946;
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” registers of electors ” has the same meaning as in the Order in Council of 1946;
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” 1959 revision ” means the revision of the registers of electors which, in accordance with section 16 of the Order in Council of 1946, was commenced in 1959; and
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” 1960 revision ” means the revision of the registers of electors required by section 16 of the Order in Council of 1946, to be commenced in 1960.
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Electoral District of Mannar,
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Electoral District of Vavuniya,
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Electoral District of Trincomalee,
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Electoral District of Mutu
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