The Haryana State Legislature (Prevention of Disqualification) Act, 1974

This Act may be called the Haryana State Legislature (Prevention of Disqualification) Act, 1974.

In sub-section

1. (1) of section 3 of the Haryana State Legislature (Prevention of Disqualification) Act, 1974,—
   • (i) in clause (m), for the sign, "." existing at the end, the sign ";" shall be substituted; and
   • (ii) after clause (m), the following clause shall be added namely :— "(n) Political Advisor to Chief Minister, Haryana.".

1. (1) It is hereby declared that none of the following offices, in so far as it is an office of profit under the Government of India or the Government of State of Haryana, shall disqualify the holder thereof for being elected as, or for being, a member of the Legislature of the State of Haryana, namely :—
   • (a) Lambardar ;
   • (b) Sub-Registrar, whether departmental or honorary, notary, Oaths Commissioner, Official receiver, not being a wholetime salaried Government employee, or any other person who is serving under an insurer, the management of whose controlled business has vested in the Central Government under the Life Insurance (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1956 (Parliament Act 9 of 1956) ;
   • (c) member of any force raised, maintained or constituted, as the case may be, under the National Cadet Corps Act, 1948 (Central Act 50 of 1948), the Territorial Army Act, 1948 (Central Act 31 of 1948) or the Reserve and Auxiliary Air Forces Act, 1952 (Parliament Act 62 of 1952), the Haryana Home Guards Act, 1974 (Haryana Act 31 of 1974) ;
   • (d) officer, in the Army reserve of Officers ;
   • (e) chairman, vice-chairman, president, vice-president director or member whether elected nominated or appointed either by the Union Government or the State Government or any of its officers, of any statutory or non-statutory body, whether he is or is not, in receipt of any remuneration including compulsatory allowance, during the performance of his duties;]
   • (f) Parliamentary Secretary or Parliamentary Under-Secretary ;
   • (g) hororary adviser to the State Government in any department thereof ;
   • (h) chairman of an Improvement Trust constituted under the Punjab Town Improvement Act, 1922 (Punjab Act 4 of 1922), and the Chairman of the Haryana State Agricultural Marketing Board constituted under section 3 of the Punjab Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1961 (Punjab Act 23 of 1961) ;
     • (i) chairman of the Haryana State Minor Irrigation (Tubewells) corporation Limited and the chairman of the Haryana Agro-Industries Corporation Limited ;
   • (j) chairman or the vice-chairman or the deputy chairman or any member of the Haryana State Planning Board or the Haryana Khadi and Village Industries Board or the Haryana Harijan Kalyan Nigam or the Haryana State Social Welfare Advisory Board ; and
   • (k) an advocate appointed by the State Government to conduct any particulars suit, case are other proceedings by or against the State Government before any Court, Tribunal or other authority, or to assist the Commission of Inquiry, or to assist or represent any of the parties before the Commission of Inquiry, appointed under the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1952, or any other law for the time being in force.]
2. (2) It is hereby further declared that none of the following offices, in so far as it is an office of profit under the Government of India, the Government of State of Haryana or the Government of any other State, shall disqualify the holder thereof for being elected as, or for being, a member of the Legislature of the State of Haryana, namely :—
   • (a) Minister ;
   • (b) State Minister ;
   • (c) Deputy Minister.

The Punjab State Legislature (Prevention of Disqualification) Act, 1952, in its application to the State of Haryana, is hereby repealed.