Section 6: Qualifications for membership of a Legislative Council.

The Representation of the People Act, 1951Central Act · Act 43 of 1951

(1) A person shall not be qualifled to be chosen to fill a seat in the Legislative Council of a State to be filled by election unless he is an elector for any Assembly constituency in that State.

(2) A person shall not be qualified to be chosen to fill a seat in the Legislative Council of a State to be filled by nomination by the Governor *** unless he is ordinarily resident in the State.

Where this provision sits

Act	The Representation of the People Act, 1951
Section	6
Marginal note	Qualifications for membership of a Legislative Council.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source
Judgments citing it	1

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omitted. . The words "or the Rajpramukh, as the case may be" omitted by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956.

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