4. Section 19 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows :
| (1) in paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of that section, by the substitution for the words and figures "Article 99 (2) ", of the words and figures " Article 99 (3) " ; and |
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| (2) by the repeal of paragraph (d) of subsection (1) of that section and the substitution of the following paragraph therefor:
| | " (d) where the consent of one or more candidates nominated or the oath or affirmation, in the form set out in the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution, of one or more candidates, has or have not been endorsed on the nomination paper." ; and | | |
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| (3) by the insertion immediately after subsection (1) of that section, of the following subsection :
| | " (1A) Objections to a nomination paper may be made to the returning officer between twelve noon and one-thirty o'clock in the afternoon of the last day of the period of nomination, and no such objection shall be entertained by the returning officer after one thirty o'clock in the afternoon of that day.". | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts