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THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY, FEB. 26,1948 155
(b) has completed the age of thirty-five years, and
(c) is qualified for election as a member of the House of the People.
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Conditions of President’s office
(2) A person shall not be eligible for election as President if he holds any office or position of emolument under the Government of India or the Government of any State or under any local or other authority subject to the control of any of the said Governments.
Explanation,—For the purposes of this clause a person shall not be deemed to hold any office or position of emolument by reason only that—
(a) he is a minister either for India or for any State for the time being specified in Part I of the First Schedule; or
(b) he is a minister for any State for the time being specified in Part III of the First Schedule, if he is responsible to the Legislature of the State, or, where there are two Houses of the Legislature of the State, to the Lower House of the Legislature, and if not less than three-fourths of the members of the Legislature or House, as the case may be, are elected.
- (1) The President shall not be a member either of parliament or of the Legislature of any State, and if a member of Parliament or of the Legislature of any State be elected President, he shall be deemed to have vacated his seat in Parliament or such Legislature, as the case may be, on the date on which he enters upon his office as President.
(2) The President shall not hold any other office or position of emolument.
(3) The President shall have an official residence and there shall be paid to the President such emoluments and allowances as may be determined by Parliament by law and, until provision in that behalf is so made, such emoluments and allowances as are specified in the Second Schedule.
(4) The emoluments and allowances of the President shall not be diminished during his term of office.