REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (NO. 2) BILL - Page 689

672 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES

(e) if, he is a director or managing agent of or holds any office of profit under any corporation in which the appropriate Government has any share or financial interest;

(f) if, having held any office under the Government of India or the Government of any State or under the Crown in India or under the Government of an Indian State he has whether before or after the commencement of the Constitution been dismissed for corruption or disloyalty to the State unless a period of five years has elapsed since his dismissal.

7A. Savings. —(1) Notwithstanding anything in section 7—

(a) a disqualification under clause (a) or clause (b) of that section shall not, in the case of a person who becomes so disqualified by virtue of a conviction or a conviction and a sentence and is at the date of the disqualification a member of Parliament or of the Legislature of a State, take effect until three months have elapsed from the date of such disqualification, or if within these three months an appeal or petition for revision is brought in respect of the conviction or the sentence until that appeal or petition is disposed of;

(b) a disqualification under clause (c) of that section shall not take effect until the expiration of two months from the date by which the return of election expenses ought to have been lodged or of such longer period as the Election Commission may in any particular case allow ;

(c) a disqualification under clause (d) of that section shall not where the share or interest in the contract devolves on a person by inheritance or succession or as a legatee executor or administrator take effect until the expiration of six months after it has so devolved on him or of such longer period as the Election Commission may in any particular case allow;

(d) a person shall not be disqualified under clause (d) of that section by reason of his having a share or interest in a contract entered into between a public company of which he is a shareholder but not a director holding an office of profit under the company or a managing agent and the appropriate Government.

(e) a person shall not be disqualified under clause (e) of that section by reason of his being a director is declared by Parliament by law to so disqualify its holder;

(f) a disqualification under clause (e) of that section shall not, in the case of a director, take effect where the law making any such declaration as is referred to in clause (e) of this section in respect of the office of such director has come into force after the director has been chosen a member of Parliament or of the Legislature of a State, as the case may be, until the expiration of six months after the date on which such law comes into force or of such longer period as the Election Commission may in any particular case allow;