78 The Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Penalty for sitting and voting in Parliament when disqualified 100. Any person who – (a) having been elected a Member of Parliament but not having been at the time of such election qualified to be so elected, shall sit or vote in Parliament; or (b) shall sit or vote in Parliament after his seat therein has become vacant or he has become disqualified from sitting or voting therein; knowing or having reasonable grounds for knowing that he was so disqualified or that his seat has become vacant, as the case may be, shall be liable to a penalty of five hundred rupees for every day upon which he so sits or votes to be recovered as a debt due to the Republic by an action instituted by the Attorney- General in the District Court of Colombo. Parliament may make provision in respect of elections 101. (1) Parliament may by law make provision for – (a) the registration of electors; (b) the prescribing of a qualifying date on which a person should be resident in any Electoral District to be entered in the register of electors of that Electoral District; (c) the prescribing of a qualifying date on which a person should have attained the age of eighteen years to qualify for the purposes of registration as an elector; (d) the preparation and revision of registers of electors; (e) the procedure for the Members of Parliament; election of (f) the creation of offences relating to such elections and the punishment therefor; (g) the ground for avoiding such elections, and where an election has been held void the manner of holding fresh elections; (h) the form and manner in which vacancies shall be filled when all the candidates whose names appearing in the nomination paper of a recognized political party or independent group have been exhausted 73[by election or otherwise or where a recognized political party or independent group has been proscribed under Article 157A; and] 73 - Substituted by the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution Sec. 2 for "by election or otherwise".