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

Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

Amendment of section 9 of the principal enactment

8. Section 9 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows:-

(1) by the insertion, immediately after subsection (1) of that section, of the following new subsection:-

	" (1A) NO person shall be qualified to be elected under this Ordinance or to sit or to vote as a member of any local authority if such person's name appears as a candidate in more than one nomination paper for the same general election."; and

(2) by the repeal of subsection (4) of that section.