WEST BENGAL LEGISLATURE (REMOVAL OF DISQUALIFICATIONS) (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1954

Act No. 27 of 1954

27th September, 1954

An Act to amend the West Bengal Legislature (Removal of Disqualifications) Act, 1952. Whereas it is expedient to amend the West Bengal Legislature (Removal of Disqualifications) Act, 1952 (West Ben. Act VI of 1952), for the purposes and in the manner hereinafter appearing; It is hereby enacted in the Fifth Tear of the Republic of India, by the Legislature of West Bengal, as follows:--

S.1 Short Title

This Act may be called the West Bengal Legislature (Removal of Disqualifications) (Amendment) Act, 1954.

S.2 Substitution of new Section for Section 2 of West Ben. Act VI of 1952

For section 2 of the West Bengal Legislature (Removal of Disqualifications) Act, 1952, the following section shall be substituted, namely:--

2. Removal of certain disqualifications for membership.- It is hereby declared that a person shall not be disqualified for being chosen as, and for being, a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly or the West Bengal Legislative Council by reason only of the fact--

• (i) that he holds any of the following offices of profit under the Government of India or the Government of any State specified in the First Schedule to the Constitution of India, namely:--
  • (a) an office of a Parliamentary Secretary or a Parliamentary Under-Secretary;
  • (b) an office which is not a whole time office remunerated either by salary or by fees; or
• (ii) that he has been enrolled in the National Cadet Corps raised and maintained under the National Cadet Corps Act, 1948 (XXXI of 1948), or in the Terr