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(1) No person shall be a member of a panchayat or continue as such who- (a) has whether before or after the commencement of this Act, been convicted- (i) of an offence under the Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955 or under the Bombay Prohibition Act, 1949, unless a period of five years, or such lesser period as the State Government may allow in any particular case, has elapsed since his conviction; or (ii) of any other offence and been sentenced to imprisonment for not less than six months, unless a period of five years, or such lesser period as the State Government may allow in any particular case, has elapsed since his release; or (b) has been adjudged by a competent court to be of unsound mind; or (c) has been adjudicated an insolvent and has not obtained his discharge; or (d) has been removed from any office held by him in any panchayat under any provision of this Act or in any panchayat before the commencement of this Act under the Gujarat Panchayats Act, 1961 and a period of five years has not elapsed from the date of such removal, unless he has, by an order of the State Government notified in the official Gazette been relieved from the disqualification arising on account of such removal from office; or (e) has been disqualified from holding office under any provision of this Act and the period for which he was so disqualified has not elapsed; or (f) holds any salaried office or place of profit in the gift or disposal of any panchayat, other than an office of President or Vice-President of a panchayat or of a Chairman of any Committee of a panchayat, while holding such office or place; or (g) has directly or indirectly, by himself or his partner, any share or interest in any work done by order of the panchayat, or in any contract with, by or on behalf of, or employment with or under the panchayat; or (h) has directly or indirectly, by himself or, his partner, any share or interest in any transaction of loan of money advanced to or borrowed from any officer or servant of any panchayat; or Restriction on simultaneous or double membership. Disqualification. XXII of 1955. Bom. XXV of