Qualifications for appointment of Commissioner etc.

(1) A person to be appointed as the Commissioner, shall be one-(a) who is holding or has held a post of the District Collector or a post not lower in rank than that of a District Collector in any other service in the State; or(b) who is holding or has held a post in the Andhra Pradesh State Higher Judicial Service; or(c) who has at least ten years practice as an Advocate of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh or of the Supreme Court; or(d) who has been holding the post of Additional Commissioner: Provided that no person shall be eligible for appointment as Commissioner unless he has completed the age of forty-five-years. (2) The qualifications for appointment to the office of Additional Commissioner, Regional Joint Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner and Assistant Commissioner shall be such as may be prescribed. (3) [XXXX] (4) [XXXX] (5) A person to be appointed as an Assistant Commissioner shall be one-(a) who has been for not less than three years as an Advocate of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh, by direct recruitment;