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| (1) The register to be used for the purposes of an election under this Act shall be the register in operation on the date of publication of the notice of nomination under section 10, notwithstanding that a new register may have come into operation after the publication of such notice. |
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| (2) For the purposes of subsection (1) a "register in operation " means a register of electors in operation in terms of the Registration of Electors Act, No. 44 of 1980, and includes a register or registers or a part of a register or any combination of them corresponding to the area of a Development Council. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts