25. Section 22 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor : -
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| | (1) In the case of each electoral area, the electoral list prepared and amended, where necessary, in accordance with the provisions of section 18 or section 19 or section 21, shall be certified by the elections officer of the district in which the area is situated. | | |
| | (2) The elections officer may certify the electoral list under this section during the pendency of any appeal preferred under section 20 in respect of the list, and shall thereafter, if the order made by the Supreme Court on such appeal so directs, insert or erase any name in the list. | | |
| | (3) Upon the certification as herein before provided of the electoral list, 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 that list is so open for inspection shall be published by the elections officer, and if any appeals are pending before the Supreme Court in respect of the list, the notice aforesaid shall include a statement setting out particulars of every such appeal. | | |
| | (4) 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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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts