Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsElection for more than one ward. [ 90, 53 of 1946.]
| 16. No person shall be entitled to be elected as a member for more than one ward of a village area, and in the event of any person being so elected, the elections officer of the district in which the area is situated shall forthwith, by notice in writing served upon such person, call upon him to declare, within seven days from the date of service, for which ward he desires to be a member, and in default of such declaration being made, the elections officer may himself determine for which ward he is to be a member ; and upon such declaration or determination, as the case may be, being made, such person shall ipso facto vacate his seat as a member for any other ward, and the provisions of section 15 shall thereupon apply. |