Local authorities elections (special provisions) Law (No. 24 of 1977)

Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

Replacement of section 8 of the principal enactment

7. Section 8 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor:-

8. Every person who is not disqualified as provided by section 9 shall be qualified at any time for election as a member of any local authority if-

	(a) he was, on the date of the commencement of the preparation or revision of the parliamentary register for the time being in operation for any electoral district in which that electoral area or any part thereof is situated, qualified to have his name entered in that register; and

	(b) he was, on the first day of June in the year of the commencement of the preparation or revision of that register, ordinarily resident in that electoral area.".