AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE EXTENTION OF THE TIME PERIOD FOR
PRESENTATION OF AN ELECTION PETITION AND INCREASE OF FINES; AND
TO AMEND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES ELECTIONS ORDINANCE (CHAPTER
262), THE PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS ACT, NO. 1 OF 1981, THE
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS ACT, NO. 15 OF 1981 AND THE
PROVINCIAL COUNCILS ELECTIONS ACT, NO. 2 OF 1988 AND TO
PROVIDE FOR MATTERS CONNECTED THEREWITH OR INCIDENTIAL
THERETO.
BE it enacted by the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka as follows:-
Short title
1.This Act may be cited as the Elections (Special
Provisions) Act, No. 21 of 2023.
PART I
AMENDMENTS TO THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES ELECTIONS ORDINANCE (CHAPTER 262)
Amendment of
certain sections
of Chapter 262
specified in the
First Schedule
2. The sections of the Local Authorities Elections
Ordinance (Chapter 262) (hereinafter in this Part referred to
as the "principal enactment") specified in Column I of the
First Schedule hereto, are hereby amended by the substitution
for the words specified in the corresponding entry in Column
II, of the words specified in the corresponding entry in
Column III of that Schedule for the purpose of increase of
fines specified in such sections.
Amendment of
section 82AF of
the principal
enactment
3. Section 82AF of the principal enactment as last amended
by Act, No. 1 of 2002 is hereby further amended in subsection
(1) thereof, by the substitution for the words "within twentyone
days of the date of publication of the result of the
election
in the Gazette:"
of the words "within forty-two
days
of the date of publication of the result of the election in
the
Gazette:".
PART II
AMENDMENTS TO THE PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS ACT, NO. 1 OF 1981
Amendment of
certain sections
of Act, No. 1
of 1981
specified in the
Second
Schedule
4. The sections of the Parliamentary Elections Act, No. 1
of 1981 (hereinafter in this Part referred to as the "principal
enactment") specified in Column I of the Second Schedule
hereto, are hereby amended by the substitution for the words
specified in the corresponding entry in Column II, of the
words specified in the corresponding entry in Column III of
that Schedule for the purpose of increase of fines specified
in such sections.
Amendment of
section 108 of
the principal
enactment
5. Section 108 of the principal enactment is hereby
amended in subsection (1) thereof, by the substitution for
the words "within twenty-one days of the date of publication
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