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Election of
Indian Members.
(4) For the purpose of electing a Member to represent the Commercial Electorate, the Island shall we deemed to constitute a single electoral district, and the Secretary of the Chamber of Com- merce of Ceylon shall be the registering officer.
XXI, If and when the Governor decides that the Muhammadan or Muhammadan or Indian Members or any one or more of such Members shall be elected and shall cease to be nominated, the Governor in Executive Council may, by Proclamation in the Government Gazette, make such orders and give such directions, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Order, as are, in his opinion, from time to time required for the of any such election or elections.
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Special-register.
ing officer and Advisory Board for Burgher Electorate.
Registers of voters.
Appointment of revising officers.
Registers of
voters to be con.
clusive evidence of right to vote.
(2) A Muhammadan or Indian Member elected in accordance with the provisions of this Article shall become and be in all respects an clected Member within the meaning of that expression as used in this Order.
XXII. (1) For the Burgher Electorate the Governor shall from time to time appoint a registering officer (styled the registering officer for the Burgher Electorate), who shall be resident at Colombo, and shall perform the duties of a registering officer for the Burgher Electorate with respect to all the electoral districts of such constitu- ency in the Island.
(2) The registering officer for the Burgher Electorate shall be assisted by a Board of not more than three persons nominated from time to time by the Governor, and holding office during the Governor's pleasure.
(3) It shall be the duty of such Board to advise and assist the registering officer in preparing the register of voters. The duties of the Board shall be advisory, and in the event of any difference between the registering officer and the Board, the opinion of the registering officer shall prevail.
XXIII.-(1) For every electoral district separate registers of the persons entitled to vote for the election of members to represent the several constituencies hereinbefore specified shall be prepared and revised in the manner prescribed by the rules contained in Schedule I to this Order.
(2) If any register is not prepared in due time, the register in operation immediately before the time at which the new register ought to have been prepared shall continue in operation until the new register is prepared.
(3) A registering or revising officer may, on the consideration or hearing of any claim, objection or appeal, require that the evidence tendered by any person shall be given on oath or affirmation and may administer an oath or affirmation for this purpose; and any person who in the course of any such con- sideration or hearing knowingly swears or affirms anything material to the validity of such claim or objection which is false or incorrect shall be guilty of the offence of giving false evidence and shall be liable to the punishment provided therefor.
XXIV. (1) The Governor may from time to time appoint such persons as he may think fit to perform the duties of revising officers under the rules contained in Schedule I to this Order.
(2) The Governor shall assign to each such officer the electoral district or districts for which he shall be the revising officer.
XXV. The registers of voters for the time being in operation shall be conclusive evidence for the purpose of determining whether a person is or is not entitled to vote in an electoral district for the election of a member to represent the constituency to which such register relates.
XXVI.—(1) No person shall be qualified to have his name General disquali- entered on any register of voters in any year if such person :-
(a) is not a British subject; or
(b) is a female; or
(c) is not of the age of 21 years; or
(d) is unable to read and write English, Sinhalese or Tamil; or
(e) has not, during the whole of a period of six months immediately prior to the commencement of the preparation of the register, resided in the electoral district to which the register relates; or
(f) has been sentenced in any part of His Majesty's Dominions to death or penal servitude, or to imprisonment for an offence punishable with hard labour or rigorous im- prisonment for a term exceeding twelve months, unless he shall have suffered the punishment to which he has been sentenced or such other punishment as by competent authority may be substituted for the same or shall have received a free pardon from His Majesty; or
(g) has been adjudged by a competent court to be of unsound mind; or
(h) does not have or hold one of the following quali- fications, viz. :—
i. The possession or enjoyment of a clear annual income of not less than Rs. 600, such possession or enjoy- ment having subsisted during the whole of a period of 6 months immediately prior to the commencement of the preparation of the register;
ii. The ownership of immovable property, either in his own right, or in right of his wife (but not as lessee or usufructuary mortgagee) situate within the elect- oral district to which the register relates during the whole of a period of 6 months immediately prior to the commencement of the preparation of the register, the value of which, after allowing for any mortgage debts thereon, is not less than Rs. 1,500;
iii. The occupation as owner or tenant during the whole of a period of 6 months immediately prior to the commencement of the preparation of the register, of any house, warehouse, counting-house, shop or other building (hereinafter referred to as qualifying property), situats within the electoral district to which the register relates, of the annual value of not less than
(a) Rs.400 if situated within the limits of any Municipal, Local Board or Sanitary Board town, or of any Urban District Council; (b) Rs.200 if situated elsewhere:
Provided that the qualifying property need not be throughout the period of qualification the same property if the annual value is in no case less than Rs. 400 or Rs. 200, as the case may. be, and if such property is in all cases situate within such area as aforesaid.
(2) The terms "house, warehouse, counting-house, shop or other building "
include any part of a building when that part is separately occupied for the purposes of any trade, business or profession; and any such part may, for the purpose of describing the qualification, be described as office, chambers, studio or by any like term applicable to the case.
(3) Where an occupier is entitled to the sole and exclusive use of any part of a building, that part shall not be deemed to be occupied
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