4. Section 33 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows :-
| (l) by the repeal of subsection (2) of that section, and the substitution therefor of the 'following subsection : |
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| " (2) Notice in writing stating the names, the numbers of the national or other identity card issued by a government department or public corporation, of the persons appointed under subsection (1) shall be given by the referendum agent or the person referred to in subsection (2) of section 17 to the counting officer before the counting of votes commences. The counting officer may refuse to admit to the counting centre any counting observer whose name, the number of the national or other identity card issued by a government department or public corporation, and address have not been so given."; and |
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| (2) by the addition at the end of that section of the following new subsection : |
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| " (3) The counting observers appointed under subsection (1) shall, before attending at the counting of votes report to the Referendum Returning Officer, who shall grant to each one of such observers authority to seek admission to a particular counting centre.". |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts