2. Section 10 of the Parliamentary Elections Act, No. 1 of 1981 (hereinafter referred to as the "principal enactment") is hereby amended in subsection (2) as follows:-
| (1) by the repeal of paragraph (a) of that subsection, and the substitution of the following paragraph therefor :
| | " (a) The nomination period shall commence on the tenth day after the date of publication in the Gazette of the Proclamation or Order referred to in subsection (1) and expire at twelve noon on the seventeenth day after the date of publication of such Proclamation or Order. " ; and | | |
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| (2) by the repeal of sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (b) of that subsection and the substitution, of the following sub-paragraph therefor :
| | " (i) a day not less than five weeks and not more than seven weeks from the closing day of the nomination period; ". | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts