Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(i) The Chairperson or any Member may, by notice in writing under their own hand addressed to the Governor of the State of Assam, resign his office. (ii) Notwithstanding anything in sub-section (1) of section 4, the State Government may, by order, remove the Chairperson or a Member from his office if such Chairperson or Member,- (a) is adjudged an insolvent; or (b) has been convicted of an offence; or (c) engages during his term of office in any paid employment outside the duties of his office; or (d) is, in the opinion of the State Government, unfit to continue in office by reason of infirmity of mind or body; or (e) has acquired such financial or other interest as is likely to affect prejudicially his functioning; or (f) is in any way, concerned or interested in any contract or agreement made by or on behalf of the Regulatory Authority or participates in any way in the profit thereof or in any benefit or emolument arising there- from otherwise than as a member and in common with the other members of an incorporated company, and is held guilty of misbehavior; or (g) is of unsound mind and stands so declared by a competent court; or (h) is convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for an offence which in the opinion of the Governor of the State of Assam involved moral turpitude. (iii) No person shall be removed under this section until that person has been given an opportunity of being heard in the matter. 7 Term of office of the Chairperson and Members of the Regulatory Authority.