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inserted in any register of voters to forward their claims to the proper registering officer before the fifteenth day of the succeeding month of September. Every claim shall contain the particulars" specified in rule 1 (c) and shall be signed as therein required.
10.--(a) The registering officer shall on or before the fifteenth day of the succeeding month of October prepare revised registers of voters, and notice of the completion of the register shall be given in manner provided by rule 5.
(b) In preparing such revised registers the registering officers shall include the names of all persons entitled to have their names inserted therein, and shall expunge from the registers the name of any person who is dead or has become disqualified or no longer resides in the electoral district. The registering officer shall also correct any mistake or supply any omission which appears to have been made in the register.
11.—(a) Claims and objections may be made with regard to the revised registars in the manner provided by rule 6 and within the time therein prescribed. Such claims shall be heard and determined by the registering officer in the manner provided by the said rule.
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(b) Appeals may be made to the revising officer in the manner provided by rule 7, and the registering officer and the revising officer shall respectively proceed as therein provided.
(c) The registering officer shall certify the revised registers in manner provided by rule 8, and the registers so certified shall come into operation on the first day of January following the publication of the notice mentioned in rule 10 (a) and shall continue in operation until superseded by other revised registers.
To the registering officer of ...........
FORM A. (RULE 1.)
I claim to have my name inserted in the list of persons entitled to vote for the election of a member to represent.....
The following are particulars of my qualifications:-
Name in full
Nationality and Sex
Address and Occupation
Age last Birthday
Qualifications*
Dated the ......... day of
* «.g., in osas of European (Urban) Electorate :-
..., 19...... Signed
A.B.,
Claimant.
1. I have resided in the electoral district of Colombo for the whole of a period of six
months immediately prior to the...... day of ....................... 19...............
3. I am pomossed of a clear annual income of not less than Rs. 600, and have possessed and enjoyed the same for the whole of the period of six months immediately prior to the mid date.
3. I am able to read and write English.
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SCHEDULE II.
RULES FOR THE ELECTION OF MEMBERS. (Article 36.)
1. Any person not ineligible for election under this order may be nominated as a candidate for election.
2. (a) Each candidate shall be nominated by means of a separate nomination paper signed by two persons, whose names are on the register of voters for the electorate for which the candidate seeks election, as proposer and seconder respec- tively: Provided that in the case of the Commercial Electorate, the duly appointed representative of any company or firm under rule 21 of this Schedule may sign ■ nomination paper as proposer or seconder, and shall thereupon be deemed, for the purpose of these rules, to be proposer or seconder, as the case may be.
(b) The written consent of the candidate must be annexed to, or endorsed on, the nomination paper.
3. The signatures of the proposer and seconder shall be attested by a Justice of the Peace or by a notary public.
4. Every nomination paper shall be in the form A annexed to these rules.
5. The returning officer shall, at any time between the date of the notification published under Artiole 35 of this Order and one o'clock in the afternoon of the day of election, supply a form or nomination paper to any registered voter requiring the
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same; but nothing in these rules shall render obligatory the use of a nomination paper supplied by the returning officer, so, however, that the paper be substantially in the form prescribed by these rules.
6. Every nomination paper subscribed and attested as aforesaid must be delivered to the returning officer by the candidate or by his proposer or seconder on the day and at the place appointed for the election between 12 noon and 1 p.m.; and nomination papers which are not duly delivered within that hour shall be rejected.
7. On the date appointed for the election of a member for any electorate, every candidate and his proposer and seconder and one other person selected by the candi- date, and no person other than the aforesaid, shall, except for the purpose of assisting the returning officer, be entitled to attend the proceedings during the time appointed for the election.
8. The returning officer shall permit the candidates and their proposers and seconders and the person, if any, selected by the candidate as aforesaid to examine the nomination papers of candidates which have been received for their electorate.
9. Each candidate shall be described in the nomination paper in such a manner as in the opinion of the returning officer is calculated to sufficiently identify such candidate. No objection to a nomination paper on the ground of the description of the candidate therein being insufficient or not being in accordance with these rules shall be allowed or deemed valid, unless such objection is made to the returning officer or by some person at, or immediately after, the time of delivery of the nomination paper. The decision of the returning officer as to the sufficiency of any nomination paper shall be final.
10. If at one o'clock in the afternoon of the day appointed for the election for any electorate one candidate only is duly nominated, or if, in the case of the Burgher Electorate, there are two vacant seats, and only two candidates are duly nominated, the returning officer shall forthwith declare such candidate or candidates to be elected, and shall report such election to the Colonial Secretary, who shall cause the election to be published in the Governinent Gazette.
11. A candidate may before one o'clock on the day appointed for the election, but not afterwards, withdraw from the candidature by giving a notice to that effect signed by him to the returning officer.
12. If more candidates than one are duly nominated for any electorate, or if, in the case of the Burgher Electorate, there are two vacant seats, and more than two candidates are duly nominated, the returning officer shall adjourn the election for the purpose of taking a poll, and shall report to the Colonial Secretary the names of the candidates as described in their respective nomination papers.
13. Upon the receipt of such report the Governor shall cause to be published in
the Government Gazette and also in such local newspapers as the Governor shall think
fit, a notice specifying--
(a) The constituency for which a poll shall be taken;
(b) The date on which the poll will be taken, which shall not be less than fourteen days later than the date of publication of the notice in the Govern- ment Gazette;
(c) The names of the candidates as described in their respective nomination papers, and the names of their proposers and seconders;
(d) The places at which the poll will be taken, and the districts allotted to each polling station.
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14. If after an election has been adjourned for the purpose of taking one of the candidates nominated shall die before the poll has commenced, the Governor shall, upon being satisfied of the fact of such death, countermand the notice for the poll, and shall appoint in manner prescribed by Article 35 of this Order a fresh date for the election. In such case all proceedings with reference to the election shall be commenced afresh, provided that no fresh nomination shall be necessary in the case of a candidate who stood nominated at the time of the countermand of the poll.
15. The Governor shall appoint one or more persons, in these rules called presiding officers," to preside at each polling station. Each presiding officer shall be supplied with a copy of the register of voters residing in the district assigned to his polling station.
16. No person shall be admitted to vote at any polling station except the one allotted to him.
17. Unless the Governor, by notification in the Government Gazette, appoint any other hour, the poll shall open at nine o'clook in the forenoon and shall close at five o'clock in the afternoon of the same day.
18. The presiding officer shall keep order in his station and shall regulate the number of electors to be admitted at a time, and abali exclude all other persons, except the olerks, an agent for each candidate, and the constables on duty,
19. (1) Every ballot paper shall contain a list of the candidates described ma in their respective nomination papers, and shall be in the form B annexed to these
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