The Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (5) 88[(a) The Commission shall have the power to issue, from time to time, in respect of the holding of any election or the conduct of a Referendum, such guidelines as the Commission may consider appropriate, to any broadcasting or telecasting operator or any proprietor or any publisher of a newspaper, as the case may be, as the Commission may consider necessary to ensure a free and fair election.] 89 [(b) It shall be the duty of any broadcasting or telecasting operator or any proprietor or publisher of a newspaper, as the case may be, to take all necessary steps to ensure compliance with any guidelines as are issued to them under paragraph (a).] (c) (i) The Commission shall cause the directions and guidelines referred to in paragraph 4(a) and paragraph 5(a) to be published in at least one newspaper widely circulated, in the Sinhala, Tamil and English languages. (ii) Every direction and guideline shall be published in the Gazette and shall come into operation on the date of such publication or on such later date as may be specified in such direction and guideline. (iii) Every such direction and guideline shall, within three months from the date of publication in the Gazette, be brought before Parliament for approval. Any direction or guideline which is not so approved shall be deemed to be rescinded as from the date of such disapproval, but without prejudice to anything previously done thereunder.] 88 - Substituted by the Twenty First Amendment to the Constitution Sec. 11. 89 - Substituted by the Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution Sec. 19(3) 111