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CEYLON GOVT. GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY
MAY 17, 1946
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(3) Subject to the provisions of subsections (4) and (5) of this Section, each electoral district of a Province shall have as nearly as may be an equal number of persons:
Provided that, in dividing a Province into electoral districts, every Delimitation Commission shall have regard to the transport facilities of the Province, its physical features and the community or diversity of interest of its inhabitants.
(4) Where it appears to the Delimitation Commission that there is in any area of a Province a substantial concentration of persons united by a community of interest, whether racial, religious or otherwise, but differing in one or more of these respects from the majority of the inhabitants of that area, the Commission may make such division of the Province into electoral districts as may be necessary to render possible the representation of that interest. In making such division the Commission shall have due regard to the desirability of reducing to the minimum the disproportion in the number of persons resident in the several electoral districts of the Province.
(5) Notwithstanding anything in subsection (1) of this Section, the Delimitation Commission shall have power to create in any Province one or more electoral districts returning two or more members:
Provided that in any such case the number of electoral districts for that Province, as ascertained in accordance with the provisions of subsection (2) of this Section, shall be reduced so that the total number of Members to be returned for that Province shall not exceed the total number of electoral districts so ascertained.
42. In the event of a difference of opinion among the members of any Delimitation Commission, the opinion of the majority of the members thereof shall prevail and shall be deemed to be the decision of the Commission. Where each member of the Commission, is of a different opinion the opinion of the Chairman shall be deemed to be the decision of the Commission.
43. The Chairman of every Delimitation Commission shall communicate the decisions of the Commission to the Governor who shall by Proclamation publish the names and boundaries of the electoral districts as decided by the Commission, and the number of members to be returned by each such district; and the districts specified in the Proclamation for the time being in force shall be the electoral districts of the Island for all the purposes of this Order and of any law for the time being in force relating to the election of Members of the House of Representatives.
44. Any re-division of the Provinces of the Island into electoral districts, effected by any Delimitation Commission established under Section 40 of this Order, and any alteration consequent upon such re-division in the total number of the Members of the House of Representatives shall, in respect of the election of Members thereof, come into operation at the next general election held after such re-division and not earlier.
PART V.
THE EXECUTIVE.
45. The executive power of the Island shall continue vested in His Majesty and shall be exercised, on behalf of His Majesty, by the Governor acting in accordance with the provisions of this Order.
Decisions of Delimitation Commissions.
Notification of Electoral Districts.
Re-division of electoral districts.
Executive Power of Ceylon.