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| (1) Every application for registration shall be addressed to the Commissioner, and shall be delivered to the appropriate Certifying Officer for transmission to the Commissioner or Government Agent. |
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| (2) Every application for registration-
| | | (b) shall be in the prescribed form and shall contain the prescribed particulars; | | |
| | (c) shall be signed by the applicant; | | |
| | (d) shall bear three impressions of the appropriate identifying mark of the applicant taken by the appropriate Certifying Officer; and | | |
| | (e) shall bear the prescribed endorsements under the hand of such Certifying Officer. | | |
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| (3) An application for registration shall be accompanied by three uncounted copies of a photograph of the applicant of the prescribed dimensions, specifications, standards and quality. One such copy shall bear, at the back thereof, the signature, or one impression of the appropriate identifying mark, of the applicant, affixed in the presence of the appropriate Certifying Officer, and an endorsement under the hand of such Officer certifying that it is a copy of a photograph of the applicant and that such signature or mark was so affixed in the presence of such Officer. |
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| (4) It shall be the duty of the appropriate Certifying Officer, upon being requested so to do, to take the impressions referred to in paragraph (d) of sub-section (2), and to make the endorsements referred to in paragraph (e) of that sub-section, and sub-section (3). |
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| (5) Upon the receipt of an application for registration, the appropriate Certifying Officer shall,
| | (a) if such application is not returned to the applicant as required by paragraph (c) of this sub-section, make a written acknowledgment of the receipt of such application to the applicant; and | | |
| | (b) if such application has been duly made under and in accordance with the provisions of this Act or any regulation made thereunder, transmit such application, within seven days of its receipt, to the Commissioner; or | | |
| | (c) if such application has not been so made, return it to the applicant for compliance with such provisions. | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts