14. The following new sections are hereby inserted immediately after the heading " Preparation of lists " and shall have effect as sections 12B, 12c, 12D, M 12E and 12F of the principal enactment:-
| 12B. For the purpose of a general election of members of any local authority for any electoral area, the elections officer shall prepare and certify an electoral list in Sinhala and Tamil and such list shall comprise the operative parliamentary register or registers or part of a register or parts of a register or any combination of them as correspond to the electoral area of such local authority. |
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| 12C. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 12B, for the purpose of a general election of members of any Municipal Council or Urban Council to be held in the year 1978, the elections officer shall prepare and certify an electoral list and such list shall comprise the parliamentary register or registers or part of a register or parts of registers or any combination of them that were used for the election of members to the National State Assembly in 1977 as correspond to the electoral area of such Municipal Council or Urban Council. |
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| 12D. Upon the certification of the electoral list under section 12B or section 12c the list or copies thereof shall forthwith be open for inspection, free of charge, during office hours at the office of the local authority of the electoral area to which the list relates. A notice to the effect that the list is so open for inspection shall be published by the elections officer. The electoral list of any electoral area prepared and certified under section 12B or section 12c shall come into force on the date of such certification. |
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| 12E. Nothing in this Ordinance shall be deemed to prohibit an elections officer, before certifying any electoral list, from correcting any clerical error which appears to him to have been made therein. |
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| 12F. Where the Minister is of opinion that the alteration of the limits of the electoral area of any local authority is such that it is necessary that a new electoral list should be prepared, he shall by Order published in the Gazette direct that the electoral list to be used for the election of members of that local authority to be held immediately after the publication of such Order shall be prepared in compliance with the succeeding provisions of this Ordinance.". |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts