Haryana State Legislature (Prevention of Disqualification) Act, 1974
No: 41 Dated: Dec, 13 1974
THE HARYANA STATE LEGISLATURE (PREVENTION OF DISQUALIFICATION) ACT, 1974
Haryana Act No. 41 of 1974
AN ACT
to declare that certain offices of profit under the Government shall not disqualify the holders thereof for being elected as, or for being, members of the Legislature of the State of Haryana.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Haryana in the Twenty fifth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
1. This act may be called the Haryana State Legislature (Prevention of Disqualification) Act, 1974.
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
(a) “compensatory allowance” means any sum of money payable to the holder of an office by way of daily allowance, any conveyance allowance, house rent allowance or traveling allowance for the purpose of enabling him to recoup any expenditure incurred by him in performing the functions of that office;
(b) “non-statutory" means any body of persons other than a statutory body;
(c) “statutory body” means any corporation, committee, commission, council, board or other body of persons, whether incorporated or not, established by or under any law for the time being in force.
3. (1) It is hereby declared that none of the following offices, in so far as it is an office of profit under the Government of India or the Government of State of Haryana shall disqualify the holder thereof for being elected as, or for being, a member of the Legislature of the State of Haryana, namely:-
(a) Lambardar:
(b) Sub-Registrar, whether departmental of however, notary, Oath Commissioner, Official Receiver, not being a whole time salaries Government employee, or any other person who is serving under an insurer, the management of whose controlled business has vested in the Central Government under the Life Insurance (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1956 (Parliament Act9 of 1956)
(c) member of any force raised, maintained or constituted, as the case may be, under the National Cadet Corps Act, 1948 (Central Act 50 of 1948), the Territorial Army Act, 1948 (Central Act 31 of 1948), or the Reserve and Auxiliary Air Forces Act, 1952), (Parliament Act 62 of 1952), the Haryana Home Guards Act, 1974 (Haryana Act 31 of 1974);
(d) officer, in the Army Reserve of Officers;
(e) chairman, vice chairman, president, vice president, director or member, whether elected, nominated or appointed either by the Union Government or the State Government or any of its officers, of any statutory or non-statutory body, whether he is or is not, in respect of any remuneration including compensatory allowance, during the performance of his duties;
(f) Parliamentary Secretary or Parliamentary Under Secretary;
(g) honorary advisor to the State Government in any department thereof;
(h) chairman of an Improvement Trust constituted under the Punjab Town Improvement Act, 1922 (Punjab Act 4 of 1922), and the Chairman of the Haryana State Agricultural Marketing Board constituted under section 3 of the Punjab Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1961 (Punjab Act 23 of 1961);