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| (1) The President shall, in every Proclamation Nomination dissolving Parliament or in any Order requiring the holding date of an election, specify
| | (a) the period (hereinafter referred to as the "nomination period") during which nomination papers shall be received by the returning officer during normal office hours at his office; and | | |
| | (b) the date on which the poll shall be taken. | | |
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| (2)
| | (a) The nomination period shall commence on the fourteenth 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 twenty-first day after the date of publication of such Proclamation or Order. | | |
| | (b) The date fixed under paragraph (b) of subsection (1) shall be
| | | (i) a day not less than three weeks and not more than eight weeks from the closing day of the nomination period; |
| (ii) any day other than a Full Moon Poya day or any public holiday specified in the First Schedule to the Holidays Act, No. 29 of 1971 ; and if, after the publication of the Proclamation or Order referred to in subsection (1), the day specified in such Proclamation or Order is declared to be a public holiday, such declaration shall in no way affect the validity of anything done on such day for the purpose of taking the poll. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts