5. Section 31 of the principal enactment, as amended by Act No. 48 of 1983, is hereby further amended as follows:
| (1) in subsection (1) of that section by the insertion immediately after paragraph (b) of that subsection of the following paragraphs :
| | (bb) that does not contain the total number of youth candidates as required to be nominated under subsection (1A) of section 28; or | | |
| | (bbb) where, as required by subsection (4) of section 28, a certified copy of the birth certificate of a youth candidate or an affidavit signed by such youth candidate, has not been attached to the nomination paper ; or " ; | | |
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| (2) by the insertion immediately after subsection (1) of that section, of the following new subsection:
| | (1A) Objections to a nomination paper may be made to a returning officer between twelve noon and one-thirty O'clock in the afternoon of the- last day of the period of nomination and no such objections shall be entertained by the returning officer after one-thirty O'clock in the afternoon of that day.", | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts