Local Authorities Elections (Amendment) Act (No. 15 of 1965)

Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

Amendment of section 47 of the principal enactment. [ 11, 9 of 1963.]

17. Section 47 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows :-

(1) by the renumbering of that section as subsection (1) of section 47 ;

(2) in renumbered subsection (1) of that section, by the substitution-

	(a) in paragraph (a) of that subsection, for the expression " section 71,", of the expression "subsection (1c) of section 37, " ; and

	(b) in paragraph (b) of that subsection, for the expression " distinctive symbol", of the word " symbol " ; and

(3) by the insertion, immediately after renumbered subsection (1) of that section, of the following new subsection :-

	(2) On and after such date as may be fixed by the Minister, for the purposes of this section, by Order published in the Gazette, subsection (1) shall have effect subject to the following modification, namely, as though for the expression " in English in the order", there were substituted the expression " in Sinhala in the order ".'.