Qualification for candidates for election

Every person, unless disqualified under the provisions of this Act or any other law for the time being in force, shall be qualified to be elected as a member of the market committee,-

1. (i) by an agriculturists' constituency, if his name is in the list of voters of any of the agriculturists' constituencies of the market area; 2[ 1[Provided that a persons shall not be qualified to be chosen from an agriculturists

constituency reserved for the persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes or the Scheduled

Tribes or the Backward Classes or for woman unless such persons belongs to thoses castes, Tribes or classes or is a woman.]

]

¹ Inserted by Act 17 of 1980 w.e.f. 30.6.1979.

² Substituted by Act 13 of 2002 w.e.f. 11.4.2002.

1. (ii) by the traders' constituency, if his name is in the list of voters of the traders' constituency of the market area; and 1[(iii) x x x]

¹ Omitted by Act 16 of 1991 w.e.f. 1.8.1991