Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

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Registration of Electors Act (No. 44 of 1980) - Sect 17

Registering officer to substitute correct qualifying address for incorrect

17.Where a registering officer is satisfied at any inquiry under subsection (9) of section 14 -
(a) that a person's name appears in a register under an incorrect qualifying address, he may substitute in the entry relating to that person in such register, for such address, the correct qualifying address as may be determined by him; or
(b) that the correct qualifying address of a person whose name is to be entered in a register is not the address specified in the claim made by him or on his behalf, such officer may enter such person's name in that register under such other address as may be determined by such officer to be the correct qualifying address of such person.


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