10 Section 21 of the presidential Elections Act, No. 15 of 1981 (hereinafter in this Part referred to as the " principal enactment") is hereby amended as follows :
| (1) by the renumbering of that section as subsection (1) of that section ; and |
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| (2) by the insertion, immediately after the renumbered subsection (1), of the following new subsections:
| | " (2) Where due to any emergency or unforeseen circumstances the poll for the election in any electoral district cannot be taken on the day specified in the notice relating to the election published under subsection (1), the Commissioner may, by Order published in the Gazette, appoint another dale for the taking of such poll and such date shall not be later than one month before the expiration of the term of office of the President in office. | | |
| | (3) Where a new date for taking a poll in an electoral district has been appointed by an Order made under subsection (2), the counting of votes polled in the other electoral districts shall not be commenced until after the close of the polls in the electoral district in respect of which such Order has been made.". | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts