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 (5) Until the fourteenth day of October, 1956, the number of members of the Provincial Assembly of the Province of West Pakistan elected by constituencies in the territory which, immediately before the commencement of the Establishment of West Pakistan Act, 1955, constituted the Province of Punjab shall not be more than two-fifths of the total number of members of that Assembly.

 78. Qualifications and disqualifications for membership- (1) A person shall be qualified be he elected to a Provincial Assembly

(a)  if he is not less than twenty-five years of age and is qualified to be an elector for any constituency for the Provincial Assembly under Articles 143; and

(b)  if he is not disqualified for being a member by the Constitution or an Act of Parliament.

 (2) If any question arises whether a member has, after his election, become subject to any disqualification, the Speaker of the Provincial Assembly shall obtain the opinion of the Election Commission and, if the opinion is that the member has incurred any disqualification, his seat shall become vacant.

 (3) If any person sits or votes in a Provincial Assembly knowing that he is not qualified for, or is disqualified for, membership thereof, he shall be liable in respect of every day on which he so sits or votes to a penalty of five hundred rupees, which may be recovered from him as a debt due to the Province.

 79. Bar against double membership— (1) No person shall at the same time be a member of the National Assembly and of a Provincial Assembly, and if a person has been elected as a member both of the National Assembly and of a Provincial Assembly. and does not, within thirty days of his election to the Assembly to which has been elected last, resign one of his seats, his seat in the Provincial Assembly shall become vacant.

 (2) No person shall at the same time be a member of both the Provincial Assemblies, and if a person has been elected as a member of both the Assemblies and does not. within thirty days of his election to the second Assembly, resign one of this seats, his seats in both the Assemblies shall become vacant.

 (3) No person shall at the same time be a member of a Provincial Assembly for two or more constituencies; but nothing in this clause shall prevent a person from being at the same time a candidate for two or more constituencies, but if a person has been elected as a member for two or more constituencies and does not, within thirty days of his election by the constituency by which he has been elected last, make a declaration in writing under his hand addressed to the Speaker specifying the constituency which he wishes to represent, all his seats in the Assembly shall become vacant; but so long as a person is a member for two or more constituencies he shall not sit or vote in the Assembly.

 (4) If a member of a Provincial Assembly for one constituency permits himself to be nominated as a candidate for election by another constituency for the Assembly, his seat in respect of the former constituency shall become vacant.