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the payment of fees and allowances to the members of the Council: Provided that in regard to members of the Council who are in the whole-time employ of the State, such regulations shall be framed in consultation with the Public Service Commission: Provided further that such regulations shall provide for the payment of an annual allowance of not less than three hundred pounds to the chairman of the Council, two hundred pounds to the other members of the executive committee and one hundred and twenty pounds to the other members of the Council.”.

3. Section twenty of the principal Act is hereby amended—

by the substitution for the word “Board” wherever it occurs of the word “Council”;

by the substitution in paragraph (ii) of sub-section (4) for the words “than two candidates” of the words “candidates than the number of candidates to be elected at any election” and by the substitution in the said paragraph for the words “two candidates” where they occur for the second time of the words “candidates or the candidate”;

by the addition to paragraph (iii) of sub-section (4) of the words “and any ballot paper on which a vote is marked for only one candidate, shall be counted as a number of votes for that candidate equal to the number of candidates to be elected at that election”;

by the deletion in paragraph (iv) of sub-section (4) of the word “two” where it occurs for the first time.

4. The long title of the principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for the word “Board” of the words “Union Council”

5. This Act shall be called the Separate Representation of Voters Amendment Act, 1956.