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THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY, FEB. 26,1948 183
(b) has been for at least ten years an advocate of a High Court or of two or more such courts in succession.
Explanation I:—In this clause ‘High Court’ means a High Court which exercises, or which before the commencement of this Constitution exercised, jurisdiction in any part of the territory of India.
Explanation II:—In computing for the purpose of this clause the period during which a person has been an advocate, any period during which a person held judicial office, after he became an advocate, shall be included.
(4) A judge of the Supreme Court shall not be removed from his office except by an order of the President passed after an address supported by not less than two-thirds of the members present and voting has been presented to the President by both Houses of Parliament in the same session for such removal on the ground of proved misbehaviour or incapacity.
(5) Parliament may by law regulate the procedure for, the presentation of an address and for the investigation and proof of the misbehaviour or incapacity of a judge under the last preceding clause.
(6) Every person appointed to be a judge of the Supreme Court shall, before he enters upon his office, make and subscribe before the President or some person appointed in that behalf by him a declaration according to the form set out for the purpose in the Third Schedule.
(7) No person who has held office as a judge of the Supreme Court shall plead or act in any court or before any authority within the territory of India.
Salaries etc. 104. The judges of the Supreme Court shall be of judges. entitled to such salaries and allowances, and to such rights in respect of leave and pensions, as may from time to time be fixed by or under law made by Parliament, and until they are so fixed shall be entitled to such salaries, allowances and rights in respect of leave of absence or pension as are specified in the Second Schedule:
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