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| (1) No person shall, on any date on which a poll is taken at a polling station, do any of the following acts within the precincts, or a distance of a half a kilometer of the entrance, of that polling station:
| | (a) canvassing for votes; | | |
| | (b) soliciting the vote of any elector; | | |
| | (c) persuading any elector not to vote for any particular candidate; | | |
| | (d) persuading any elector not to vote at the election ; | | |
| | (e) distributing or exhibiting any handbill placard, poster, photograph or drawing or notice relating to the election (other than any official handbill, placard, poster, photograph or drawing or notice) or any symbol allotted under section 20 to any candidate. | | |
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| (2) No person shall, on any date on which a poll is taken at any polling station
so as to cause annoyance to any person visiting the polling station for the poll or so as to interfere with the work of the officers and other persons on duty at the polling station. Every person who contravenes the provisions of this subsection shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding one month or to both such fine and imprisonment. | | (a) use or operate, within or at the entrance of a polling station or in any public or private place in the neighborhood thereof, any megaphone or loudspeaker or other apparatus for magnifying or reproducing the human voice, or | | |
| | (b) shout or otherwise act in a disorderly manner within or at the entrance of a polling station or in any public or private place in the neighborhood thereof, | | |
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| (3) Any police officer may take such steps and use such force as may be reasonably necessary for preventing any contravention of the provisions of subsection (2) and may seize any apparatus used for such contravention. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts