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| (1) As soon as may be after the publication of Proclamation under Article 97 of the Constitution, the registering officer of each electoral district specified in the Proclamation aforesaid, shall, in accordance with such directions as may be issued by the Commissioner -
| | (a) divide that electoral district into polling divisions, and assign to each such polling division a distinguishing letter or letters; | | |
| | (b) sub-divide each such polling division into polling districts and assign to each such polling district a distinguishing number ; and | | |
| | (c) publish in the Gazette a notice specifying
| | | (i) the polling divisions into which that electoral district has been divided and the distinguishing letter or letters assigned to each such polling division, and |
| (ii) the polling districts into which each such polling division has been sub-divided and the distinguishing number assigned to each such polling district. |
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| (2) Unless the Commissioner otherwise directs, the subdivision of a polling division into polling districts shall be so made that each polling district, at the time of such sub-division, contains not more than one thousand five hundred electors. |
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| (3) The division of an electoral district into polling divisions, and the sub-division of a polling division into polling districts may be altered by the registering officer as occasion may require; and upon any such alteration being made he shall publish in the Gazette a notice specifying, in relation to that electoral district, the particulars mentioned in paragraph (c) of subsection (1). Any such alteration shall come into effect on the date of publication of the notice under section 20 relating to the next certification of the register for such electoral district, but the revision of such register before such certification may be made on the basis of such alteration. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts