65. Section 62 of the principal enactment is hereby-repealed and the following section substituted therefor : -
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| | (1) Except with the consent of the counting officer, no person other than the counting officer, the persons appointed to assist him, and the counting agents may he present at the counting of the votes. | | |
| | (2) Before the counting officer proceeds to count the votes, he shall, in the presence of the counting agents, open each ballot box and, taking out the ballot papers t herein shall court and record the number thereof, and then mix together the whole of the papers contained in the ballot boxes. | | |
| | (3) The counting officer, while counting and recording the number of ballot papers and counting the votes, shall keep the ballot papers with their faces upwards, and take all proper pre- cautions for preventing any person from seeing the numbers printed on the back of the papers.". | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts