34. Section 27E of the principal enactment is hereby amended by the repeal of subsection (1) of that section and the substitution therefor of the following subsection: -
| "(1) Where the Commissioner has reasonable cause to believe that difficulties may arise at any election which is due to be held in any electoral area by reason of the fact that there are rival sections of a recognized political party for the purpose of local elections all of whom claim to be that party, the Commissioner may, in order to remove such difficulties, issue in his absolute discretion a direction to the returning officer of that electoral area. that, in the case of such election, such recognized political party is either any one such section or none of such sections. It shall be the duty of such returning officer or any other officer, at such election, to act in accordance with that direction.". |
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