Qualifications and disqualifications for candidates and elected members.– (1) A person shall qualify to be elected as a member or to hold an elected office of a local government, if he– (a) is a citizen of Pakistan; (b) except the youth member, is not less than twenty five years of age on the last day fixed for filing the nomination papers; or (c) is enrolled as a voter in the electoral rolls of the Union Council or the ward. (2) A person shall be disqualified from being elected or chosen as, and from being, an elected member of a local government, if he– (a) ceases to be citizen of Pakistan or acquires citizenship of a foreign State; (b) is declared by a competent court to be of unsound mind; (c) is an undischarged insolvent; (d) is in the service of Pakistan or of a local government; (e) is in the service of any statutory body or a body which is owned or controlled by the Government or a Provincial Government or the Federal Government or a local government or, in which any of such Government or local government has a controlling share or interest, except the holders of elected public office and part-time officials remunerated either by salary or fee; provided that in case of a person who has resigned or retired from any such service, a period of not less than two years has elapsed since his resignation or retirement; (f) is under an existing contract for work to be done or goods to be supplied to a local government or has otherwise any direct pecuniary interest in its affairs; (g) has been dismissed from public service on the grounds of misconduct unless a period of five years has elapsed since his dismissal; (h) has been removed or compulsorily retired from public service on the grounds of misconduct unless a period of three years has elapsed since his removal or compulsory retirement; (i) has been convicted by a court of competent jurisdiction for a term not less than two years for an offence involving moral turpitude or misuse of power or authority under any law unless a period of five years has elapsed since his release; (j) has been convicted for an offence involving activities prejudicial to the ideology, interest, security, unity, solidarity, peace and integrity of Pakistan unless a period of five years has elapsed since his release; and (k) has used for his election the platform, flag, symbol, affiliation and financial or material resources or support of a political, religious, ethnic or sectarian party or organization. (3) If a person– (a) is found by the Election Commission to have contravened any provisions of subsections (1) or (2), he shall stand disqualified from being a candidate for election to any office of a local government for a period of four years; or (b) has been elected as a member of a local government and is found by the Election Commission to have contravened any provision of subsections (1) or (2), he shall cease forthwith to be an elected member or to hold the office of such member and shall stand disqualified from being a candidate for election to a local government for a period of four years.
Posted on: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 10:04:49 +0000
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