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(a)
is a Commonwealth citizen of not less than the age of 18 years;
(b)
has resided in Mauritius for a period of, or periods amounting in the aggregate to,
not less than 2 years before the date of his nomination for election;
(c)
has resided in Mauritius for a period of not less, than 6 months immediately before
that date; and
(d)
is able to speak and, unless incapacitated by blindness or other physical cause, to
read the English language with a degree of proficiency sufficient to enable him to
take an active part in the proceedings of the Assembly.
Disqualifications for membership
(1)
No person shall be qualified to be elected as member of the Assembly who (a)
is, by virtue of his own act, under any acknowledgement of allegiance,
obedience or adherence to a power or state outside the Commonwealth;
(b)
is a public officer or a local government officer;
(c)
is a party to, or a partner in a firm or a director or manager of a company
which is a party to, any contract with the Government for or on account of
the public service, and has not, within 14 days after his nomination as a
candidate for election, published in the English language in the Gazette and
in a newspaper circulating in the constituency for which he is a candidate, a
notice setting out the nature of such contract and his interest, or the interest
of any such firm or company, therein;
(d)
has been adjudged or otherwise declared bankrupt under any law in force in
any part of the Commonwealth and has not been discharged or has
obtained the benefit of a cessio bonorum in Mauritius;
(e)
is a person adjudged to be of unsound mind or detained as a criminal lunatic
under any law in force in Mauritius;
(f)
is under sentence of death imposed on him by a court in any part of the
Commonwealth, or is serving a sentence of imprisonment (by whatever
name called) exceeding 12 months imposed on him by such a court or
substituted by competent authority for some other sentence imposed on him
by such a court, or is under such a sentence of imprisonment the execution
of which has been suspended;
(g)
is disqualified for election by any law in force in Mauritius by reason of his
holding, or acting in, an office the functions of which involve
(i)
any responsibility for, or, in connection with, the conduct of any
election; or