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| (1) During the period commencing from the first day of the nomination period at an election and ending on the day following the day on which a poll is taken at such election, no person shall, for the purpose of promoting such election display
| | (a) in any premises, whether public or private, any flag or banner except in or on any vehicle that is used for the conveyance of a candidate at such election or; | | |
| | (b) any handbill, placard, poster, drawing, notice, photograph of a candidate, symbol or sign on any place to which the public have a right of, or are granted, access except in or on any premises on any day on which an election meeting is due to be held in that premises; or | | |
| | (c) any handbill, placard, poster, drawing, notice, photograph of a candidate, symbol, sign, flag or banner, on or across any public road; or | | |
| | (d) any handbill, placard, poster, drawing, notice, photo graph of a candidate symbol or sign in or on and vehicle except in or on any vehicle that is used for the conveyance of a candidate at such election. | | |
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| (2) Every person who contravenes the provisions of sub section (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding one month or to both such line and imprisonment. |
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| (3) Every person who attempts to commit an offence specified in this section shall be liable to the punishment prescribed for that offence |
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| (4) Every offence under this section shall be a cognizable offence within the meaning of the Code of Criminal Procedure Act, No. 15 of 1979. |
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| (5) Any police officer may take such steps, and use such force, as may be reasonably necessary for preventing any contravention of the provisions of subsection (1) and may seize and remove and handbill, placard, poster, notice, drawing symbol, photograph of a candidate, sign, flag or banner used in such contravention, |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts