8. Section 19 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following new section substituted therefor :-
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| | (1) No person shall be entitled to have his name entered or retained-
| | | (a) in more than one electoral list, whether of the wards of the same electoral area or different electoral areas : or |
| (b) more than once in the same electoral list under different qualifying addresses, |
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| | (2)
| | | (a) Where it appears that a person is qualified to have his name entered or retained-
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| (b) Any notice referred to in paragraph (a) of this subsection may be served upon any person by sending it by ordinary letter post to such person or by delivering it to him or to an adult member of his household. |
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| | (3) Where, in compliance with a notice under paragraph (a) of subsection (2), a person specifies-
| | | (a) the electoral list in which he desires to have his name entered or retained, and the elections officer of the appropriate district is satisfied that such person is qualified to have his name entered or retained in that list, his name shall be entered or retained in that list and in no other electoral list; or |
| (b) the qualifying address under which he desires to have his name entered or retained in the same electoral list, and the elections officer of the district in which the ward to which that list relates is situated is satisfied that such person is qualified to have his name entered or retained in that list under that address, his name shall be entered or retained under that address in that list and under no other address in that list. |
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| | (4) Where a person fails to comply with a notice under paragraph (a) of subsection (2),-
| | | (a) the appropriate elections officer shall, if the notice required such person to specify the electoral list in which such person desires to have his name entered or retained, determine which one of the electoral lists in which such person is qualified to have his name entered or retained shall be the electoral list in which such name shall be entered or retained, and such name shall be entered or retained in the electoral list determined by such officer and in no other electoral list; or |
| (b) the appropriate elections officer shall, if the notice required such person to specify the qualifying address under which he desires to have his name entered or retained in the same electoral list, determine which one of the qualifying addresses in the same electoral list under which such person is qualified to have his name entered or retained shall be the address under which such name shall be entered or retained in that list, and such name shall be entered or retained under the qualifying address in that list determined by such officer and under no other qualifying address in that list. |
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| | (5) The failure of any person to comply with any notice served under paragraph (a) of subsection (2), or the failure of an elections officer to comply with the provisions of subsection (4) in respect of that person, or the fact that upon such compliance his name is not entered or retained in any electoral list, or under any qualifying address in the same electoral list, specified by such person, shall not affect or prejudice his right to have his name entered or retained, subject to the provisions of sub section (1) and section 82, in any electoral list, or under any qualifying address in the same electoral list, as the case may be, in or under which he is qualified to have his name entered or retained. ". | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts