Sixth Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka (Act No. 6 of 1983)

Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka · lawnet.gov.lk (1983)

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The Sixth Amendment, enacted in the immediate aftermath of Black July 1983, made advocacy for a separate state grounds for forfeiture of parliamentary seat and disqualification from public office. It retrospectively criminalised the Vaddukoddai mandate on which the TULF had been elected in 1977, removing the Tamil parliamentary opposition from the legislature. Cited in /case/narrowing at step 9 as the constitutional moment that closed parliamentary-electoral expression of the Tamil sovereignty question.

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