3. Section 15 of the principal enactment is hereby amended by the repeal of subsections (1) and (2) of that section and the substitution of the following subsections therefor:
| ' (1) Any recognized political party or any group of persons contesting as independent candidates (hereinafter referred to as an "independent group") may, for the purpose of an election of Members of Parliament for any electoral district, submit one nomination paper setting out the names, of such number of candidates as is equivalent to the number of Members to be elected for that electoral district, increased by three. Such nomination paper shall be substantially in Form A set out in the First Schedule to this Act. |
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| (2) The written consent of each candidate to be nominated by a recognized political party or an independent group and an oath or affirmation, as the case may be, in the Form set out in the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution, taken or subscribed or made or subscribed, as the case may be, by every such candidate, shall be endorsed on the nomination paper.'. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts