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PUBLIC

RECORD OFFICE

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C.O. 882/10

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

Power to supple- ment rules in

Schedules I. and

II. and as to publication and confirmation of Rules.

Power of

Governor in

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Provided always that the Governor may, by Proclamation, postpone the holding of the first general election under this Order for a further period not exceeding four months, if, in his opinion, it is not practicable to hold the same within the period of six months herein before provided.

LXIV. (1) The Governor in Executive Council may from time to time make rules to supplement the rules contained in Schedules I. and II. to this Order, or may rescind, vary, or amend any of such rules as above referred to.

(2) All rules made under this Article or under Artiole XXXVII. or XXXVIII. of this Order shall be published in the Government Gazette, and shall, thereupon, subject to the provisions of the next following clause, be as legal, valid, effectual, and binding as if they had been enacted in this Order.

(3) All rules made under this Article or under Article XXXVII. or XXXVIII. of this Order shall be laid as soon as conveniently may be before the Legislative Council; and if a resolution is passed within forty days of their being so laid before the Legislative Council praying that any such rule shall be annulled, such rules shall thenceforth be void, but without prejudice to anything done thereunder.

LXV. If any difficulty arises as to the first establishment of the Council after the commencement of this Order, or otherwise in Executive Council first giving effect to the provisions of this Order, the Governor in Executive Council, as occasion may require, may, by Order pub- lished in the Government Gazette, do anything which appears to him necessary for the purpose of removing the difficulty.

to make Orders to meet diff.

culties arising

under Order.

Power of Governor in Executive Council

to decide

questions.

Power to revoke

and amend

Order.

Notice inviting

claim of voters.

LXVI. The decision of the Governor in Executive Council on any question which may arise as to the intention, construction, or application of this Order and of the rules thereunder shall be final.

LXVII. His Majesty hereby reserves to Himself, His Heirs and Successors, power, with the advice of His or Their Privy Council, to revoke, alter, or amend this Order as to Him, or Them shall seem fit.

SCHEDULE I.

M. P. A. HANKEY.

RULES FOR THE PREPARATION OF REGISTER OF VOTERS.

(Article 23.)

1.-(a) As soon as conveniently may be after the publication in the Government Gazette of this Order, a notification shall be published in the Government Gazette calling upon all persons desirous of having their names inserted in the register of voters for any constituenoy to forward their olsims within one month from the publication of the notification..

(b) Claims relating to the Burgher, Commercial, and Colombo Town Electorates shall be forwarded to the registering officer respectively of each such electorate, and claims relating to any other constituency to the registering officer of the alectoral district within which the claimant resides.

(c) Every claim may be in the form A appended to these rules; it shall be signed by the claimant, and shall contain the following particulars, namely :—

i. The constituency in respect of which the claim is made.

ii. The name in full of the oksimant, his nationality and sex.

iii. The claimant's address and occupation.

iv. The claimant's age at his last birthday.

v. The qualifications in virtue of which a vote is claimed.

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2. Upon the expiration of the period limited by the preceding rule, it shall be Preparation of the duty of the registering officers of the several electorates and electoral districts register of voters. to prepare a separate register of voters for each of such electorates or districts.

3. In preparing such registers, the registering officers shall, after inquiry, as may Dution of register be necessary, include in the register the names of all persons who they consider are ing officers sa to duly qualified to be registered as voters, whether such persons have or have not inclusion of names forwarded claims as provided by rule 1.

on register.

4. The registering officer for the Burgher Electorate, with the assistance of the Registers for Board referred to in Article 22 of this Order, shall prepare separate registers for each Burgher Electorate

of the electoral districts in the Island.

5. On the completion of the registers, notice shall be given in the Government Notice of comple. Gazette and in the principal newspapers circulating in the Island in the English tion of registers. language that the registers are completed, and that the registers, or copies thereof, are open for inspection at all reasonable hours of the day at the Kachcherice of the several electoral districts or at such other places as shall be specified in the notice.

tions.

6. (a) Every person qualified to have his name entered on the register for any Claims and objec constituency whose name is omitted from such register, and who claims to have it inserted therein (in these rules called "the claimant "), may apply to the registering officer to have his name inserted therein.

(6) Every person whose name appears in the register for any constituency, who objects to the name of any other person or his own name appearing therein (in these rules called "the objector "), may apply to the registering officer to have such name expunged from the register.

(c) Every such application shall be made in writing within four weeks from the date of the publication of the notice referred to in rule 5, and shall set out the grounds of the application, and shall give an address for the receipt of notices,

(d) The registering officer shall hear all claims and objections which have been duly made in open court or office, giving ten clear days' notice of the holding of the inquiry by written notice to each claimant and objector, and to each person objected to, and shall also fix such notice in some conspicuous place in his court or office.

(e) The registering officer shall insert in the register the name of every person who has duly claimed to have his name inserted therein, and whose claim is proved to the registering officer's satisfaction.

(f) The registering officer shall retain in the register the name of every person objected to, unless the objector appears by himself or by some person duly authorised by him in this behalf in support of the objection. Where the objector so appears, the registering officer shall require proof of the qualification of the person objected to, and if within such reasonable time as the registering officer fixes in this behalf, or on the subsequent day, if any, to which the hearing is adjourned, such person's qualification is not proved to the registering officer's satisfaction, he shall expunge his name from the register.

((g) In the case of claims with regard to the Burgher and Commercial Electorates, the registering officer may dispense with the attendance of the claimant, if the claim is, in his judgment, supported by sufficient documentary evidence.

7. (a) If any claimant or objector is dissatisfied with the decision of the registering officer, he may, within ten days from the date thereof, appeal to the revising officer.

(b) Every such appeal shall be in writing, and shall state shortly the grounds of appeal. The revising officer shall hear such appeals in manner provided by rule 8 (d), 6 (e) and 6 (f) and his determination thereon shall be final and conclusive.

(c) When the revising officer has determined all the appeals which have been lodged with respect to any register, he shall forward to the registering officer a state- ment under his hand of the names which he has decided shall be inserted in or expunged from the register, and the registering officer shall amend the register accordingly.

8. The registering officer shall then certify the register amended as aforesaid, and the certified register shall be the register in operation until a revised register bas been prepared and certified in accordance with these rules.

Annual Revisión OF REGISTERS.

9. On or before the fifteenth day of Angust, 1925, and thereafter on or before

the fifteenth day of August in overy sooooding year, a notification shall be published in the Government Gazette calling upon all persons desirous of having their names

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