21. Section 18 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows:-
| (1) by the repeal of subsection (1) of that section and the substitution therefor of the following subsection:-
| | "(1) Upon the expiry of a period of fourteen days from the date of the publication of the notice under section 16 in respect of the electoral list of any electoral area, the elections officer of the district in which the area is situated shall, if any claim or objection has been duly made in resects of the list, publish a notice-
| | | (a) setting out each claim or objection so made; |
| (b) indicating that at a time and date specified in such notice he will attend at the office of the local authority of the area or at such other place as he may specify in such notice for the purpose of hearing each such claim or objection; and |
| (c) calling upon every claimant and every person who desires to oppose any claimant, every objector and every person in regard to whom an objection has been made, to appear before him at the date and at the time and place so indicated."; and |
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| (2) by the repeal of subsection (5) of that section and the substitution therefor of the following subsection:-
| | " (5) The elections officer shall, after deciding all the claims and objections made in respect of the electoral list, make such amendments in the list as he may deem necessary to give effect to any such decision.". | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts