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| (1) No person shall canvass for, or act as agent of or speak on behalf of, a candidate, or in any way participate in an election, if such person is a person on whom civic disability has been imposed by a resolution passed by Parliament in terms of Article 81 of the Constitution, and the period of such civic disability specified in such resolution has not expired. |
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| (2) Every person who contravenes the provisions of subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand rupees, or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding six months, or to both such fine and imprisonment. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts