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(2) Members of the Legislature of a Unit electing members for the House of Units as well as persons who are not members of that Legislature should be equally eligible for election to the house of Units if they are otherwise duly qualified.

 41. Vacation of seats by members: -(1) No person should be

 (1) a member of both the Houses of the Federal Legislature; or

 (ii) a member of the Federal Legislature as well as of the Legislature of a Unit or of a Federated State; or

 (iii)a member of the Legislature of a Unit and of a Federated State; or

 (iv) a member of the Legislature of two or more Units.

 (2) If a person is elected to more than one seat in contravention of the provisions of sub-paragraph (1), he should vacate his seat or seats except one. If he fails to do so within thirty days of his election to the seat to which he has been elected last he should be deemed to have vacated all his seats.


 42. Disqualifications for membership of the House of Units: -A person should be disqualified for being chosen as, and for being, a member of the House of Units-.

 (a) if he is of unsound mind and stands so declared by a competent court;

 (b) if he is an undercharged insolvent;

 (c) if he holds an office of profit under the Federal Government or under the Government of a Unit, or under any other Government except an office declared by an Act of the Federal Legislature not to disqualify its holder:

 Provided that for this purpose a person should not be deemed to hold an office of profit under the Federal Government or under the Government of a Unit by reason only that he is a Minister, Minister of State, Deputy Minister or a Parliamentary Secretary for the Federal Government, or a Minister or a Deputy Minister or a Parliamentary Secretary for the Government of a Unit.

 (d) if he has been found guilty, by a competent court in Pakistan, of any offence or illegal practice relating to elections which has been declared by any law or rules, for the time being in force, to be an offence or practice entailing disqualification for membership of the Legislature;

 (e) if he has been convicted of any offence, other than those specified under sub- paragraph (d) above, before or after the commencement of the Constitution, by a competent court in Pakistan and sentenced to life imprisonment or to imprisonment for not less than two years, unless a period of five years has elapsed since his release;

 (f) if, having been nominated as a candidate for the Federal Legislature of the Legislature of a Unit or having acted as an election agent of any person so nominated, he has failed to lodge a return of election expenses within the time and in the manner