Disqualification for membership, etc.

(1) A person shall be disqualified for being chosen or elected as, and for being, a member of the Pradesh Council if he has incurred or incurs any of the disqualifications specified in section 11 of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Gram Panchayats) Regulation, 1961, under the assumption which he becomes, or has been so chosen or elected, and shall continue for the first mentioned and no longer, at the expiration of a dissolution of the Pradesh Council. No act or proceeding of the Pradesh Council shall be invalid by reason only of the existence of any vacancy amongst its members or of any defect in the constitution thereof. (2) A vacancy in the membership of the Council under clause (d) or clause (e) or clause (f) of section 3 shall be filled by any election or nomination, as the case may be, in accordance with the provisions of the Regulation: Provided that the Administrator may, with the previous approval of the President, by order in writing, extend this Regulation to any person or persons, but no one shall be made in circumstances as per such order shall be notified in the council as per the said Regulation. Provided that a member so elected or nominated under this sub-section shall hold office only for the remainder of the term of office of the member in whose place he was elected or nominated. (3) Any or other lady member (other than the Administrator) of the Pradesh Council has become member, shall before taking his seat, make and subscribe before the Administrator or some person appointed in that behalf by the Administrator, an oath or affirmation according to the form set out for the purpose in the Second Schedule.