Disqualifications

A person shall be disqualified for being chosen as, and for being, a member of the Council,- (a) if he/she has been sentenced by a criminal court for an offence involving moral turpitude and punishable with imprisonment for a term exceeding three months, such sentence not having been subsequently reversed, quashed or remitted, unless he has by order, which the State government is hereby empowered to make in this behalf, been relieved from the disqualification arising on account of such sentence; or (b) if he/she is an un-discharged insolvent; or (c) if he/she is of unsound mind and stands so declared by a competent Court; or (d) if his/her name has been removed from the register; or (e) if her/she is a whole time officer or servant of the Council; (f) if any member, during the period for which he has been elected or nominated (a) absents himself without excuse sufficient in the opinion of the Council, from three consecutive ordinary meetings of the Council; or (b) absent out of India for a period exceeding eighth consecutive months; or (c) ceases to be a member of the electorate or body by which he was elected; or (d) becomes subject to any other disqualifications specified in section 8; or (e) having been elected by the Sikkim Medical Council, ceases to be a registered medical Practitioner; the President of the Council shall forthwith report the fact to the State Government, which shall thereupon, by an order in writing, declare his seat to be vacant.