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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 half a kilometre 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 recognized political party or independent group ; | | |
| | (d) persuading any elector not to vote at the election ; | | |
| | (e) distributing or exhibiting any handbill, placard, poster, drawing, photograph of a candidate, or notice relating to the election (other than any official handbill, placard, poster or notice) or any symbol allotted under section 22 to any recognized political party or independent group. | | |
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| (2) No person shall, on any date on which a poll is taken at any polling station
| | (a) use or operate, within or at the entrance of a polling station or in any public or private place in the neighbourhood thereof, any megaphone or loud-speaker 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 neighbourhood 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