The Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
(6) Where the total number of members to be returned
by all the electoral districts ascertained by reference to the
qualifying number in accordance with paragraph (5) of
this Article is less than one hundred and sixty members,
the apportionment of the entitlement among the electoral
districts of the balance number of members shall be by
reference to the balance number of such electors and in
the case of any electoral district not entitled to return a
single member according to the determination made under
paragraph (5), the total number of electors whose names
appear in the register of electors of such electoral district,
the electoral district having the highest of such balance
number of such electors or such total number of such
electors, being entitled to return one more member and so
on until the total number of members to be returned
number one hundred and sixty.
(7) Where in making an apportionment under
paragraph (6) of this Article an equality is found to exist
between two or more balance number of such electors
or two or more total number of such electors or any
combination of them and the addition of one such elector
would entitle one electoral district to return an additional
member, the determination of the electoral district to
which one such elector shall be deemed to be added shall
be determined by lot.
(8) 72[The Commissioner of Elections, as soon as
possible after the certification of the registers of electors
for all the electoral districts, shall by Order published
in the Gazette, certify the number of members which
each electoral district is entitled to return by virtue of the
Proclamation under Article 97 and this Article.]
(9) For the purposes of this Article “the register of
electors” means the register of electors for the time being
in operation on the basis of which an election is being
72 - Substituted by the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution Sec. 3.
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