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| (1) Any person who is qualified, under this Ordinance, for election as a member of a local authority may be nominated as a candidate for election for the electoral area of such authority. | | |
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| (2) Any recognized political party or any group of persons contesting as independent candidates (hereinafter referred to as an " independent group ") may for the purpose of election as members of any local authority submit one nomination paper substantially in the form set out In the First Schedule, setting out the names, in order of priority, of such number of candidates as is equivalent to the number of members including the Mayor and Deputy Mayor to be elected for that local authority Increased by one-third of such number of members. The returning officer shall as soon as practicable make a copy of each nomination paper received by him and display such copies of nomination paper on his notice-board . | | |
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| (3) The candidates whose names appear first and second in the nomination paper of each recognized political party and independent group shall in addition be candidates for election to the office of Mayor and Deputy Mayor, respectively. | | |
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| (4) The written consent of each candidate to be nominated by a recognized political party or an independent group shall be endorsed on the nomination paper. | | |
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| (5) Each nomination paper shall be signed by the secretary of a recognized political party and in the case of an independent group by the candidate whose name appears first in the nomination paper (hereinafter referred to as the " group leader ") and shall be attested by a Justice of the Peace or by a notary public. | | |
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| (6) The returning officer of an electoral area shall on application made at any date after the publication of the notice under section 26 and before the expiry of the nomination period for that electoral area, supply free of charge a nomination paper in the prescribed form to any recognized political party or any independent group; but nothing in this Ordinance shall be deemed to preclude the use of any form of nomination paper not supplied by the returning officer, so long as such form does not differ substantially from the form set out in the First Schedule. | | |
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| (7) In any case where the total number of members to be elected for a local authority is such that one-third of that number would be an integer and a fraction, then, the next higher integer shall be deemed to be the one-third for the purpose of subsection (2). | | |
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| (8)
| | | (a) Where it appears to the secretary of a recognized political party or group leader that there is any omission or clerical error in a nomination paper submitted by such party or independent group he may make an application to the returning officer before the expiry of the nomination period to correct such omission or error on such paper. |
| (b) Where the returning officer is satisfied that such omission or error is due to inadvertence the returning officer may allow such secretary or the authorized agent or group leader to correct such omission or error in his presence.'. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts