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Referendum Act (No. 7 of 1981) - Sect 63

Power to order Referendum in exceptional circumstances

63. If at any time after the President, has by Proclamation fixed the date for a Referendum , it is shown to his satisfaction that in any electoral district or part thereof owing to any cause whatsoever no Referendum has been held in pursuance of such Proclamation he may at any time by notice in the Gazette issue another Proclamation that a Referendum shall be held in the district or part thereof and the provisions of this Act shall, mutatis mutandis apply in relation to such electoral district or part thereof:Provide that another Proclamation shall not be issued under the preceding total number of provisions of this section where the district or the part thereof in which no Referendum had been held is such that the result reported to the President under section 40 would not have been materially affected by the fact that the voters of such electoral district or part thereof had voted at such Referendum,


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