61. Section 56 of the principal enactment is thereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor: -
| 56. If a person, representing himself to be a particular voter named on the electoral list, applies for a ballot paper after another person has voted as such voter, the applicant shall, on making and subscribing the first declaration set out in section 52. (1), be entitled to receive and to mark a ballot paper in the same manner as any other voter, but the ballot paper (hereinafter referred to as "a tendered ballot paper") shall be of a colour differing from the other ballot papers, and instead of being put into the ballot box shall be given to the presiding officer and endorsed by him with . the name of the voter and his number in the electoral list. The name of the voter and his number on the list shall be entered in a list to be known as " the tendered votes list". The tendered ballot papers shall be set aside in a separate packet and shall not be counted by the counting officer.'. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts