Davit Perera V. Assistant Government agent, Kalutara

1930 Present : Maartensz A.J.

In the Matter of an Application for a Writ of Mandamus on the Assistant
Government Agent, Kalutara.

DAVIT PERERA v. ASSISTANT
GOVERNMENT AGENT,
KALUTARA.

Village Committee-Meeting of inhabitants- Power of Government Agent to adjourn meeting-Another time and place on the same day-Village Communities Ordinance, No. 9 of 1924, s. 10 (2).

The power given to a Government Agent, under section 10, sub-section (2), of the Village Communities Ordinance to adjourn a meeting held for the purpose of electing a Village Committee, entitles him to adjourn the meeting to another time and place on the same day.

THIS was an application for a declaration that the election of the second to twenty-eighth respondents as members of the Village Committee for the subdivision of Gangaboda was void and for a mandamus on the Assistant Government Agent of Kalutara, directing him to hold a fresh election. The principal ground on which the election of the committee was attacked was that the meeting was held at a place other than that fixed in the notice given of the meeting. It appears that the meeting com

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