Disqualifications for membership

Disqualifications for membership.—(1) A person shall be disqualified for being chosen as and for being a member of a market committee, if he,—

1. (a) is not a citizen of India;
2. (b) is less than twenty-one years of age;
3. (c) has been adjudged by a competent court to be of unsound mind;
4. (d) is an undischarged insolvent;
5. (e) has been convicted by a criminal court of any offence involving moral turpitude, unless a period of five years has elapsed since the date of his conviction;
6. (f) holds any office of profit under the Government or any local authority, other than an office declared by the State Government to be an office of profit which does not disqualify a member;
7. (g) has been removed from the office of member or disqualified from being a member of a market committee for any of the corrupt practices mentioned in section 24;
8. (h) is a person who is a defaulter in the payment of market fees in respect of agricultural produce or any other amount due to the market committee;
   • (i) is a person who is a trader, commission agent, broker, importer or exporter and has not paid the dues to the market committee up to the date of election;
9. (j) is a person convicted under this Act.