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There shall be a District Legal Services Authority of each district in the State of Haryana. (1) The District Legal Services Authority shall have not more than eight members. (2) The following shall be ex-officio members of the District Legal Services Authority:-- (i) District and Sessions Judges as Chairman; “Provided that where there is no District & Sessions Judge posted at the seat of headquarters of a district (as distinguished from a sessions division), in such eventuality the Senior Most Additional District & Sessions Judge/Senior Most Judicial Officer, as the case may be, posted there, shall be the Chairman of the District Legal Services Authority.”7 (ii) District Magistrate; (iii) “Commissioner of Police/Superintendent of Police: Provided that where Commissioner of Police is the Head of Police Force in a District the Commissioner of Police shall be the ex-officio member of District Legal Services Authority”8 (iv) District Attorney; (v) Chief Judicial Magistrate/Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate/Senior Most Judicial Magistrate shall be Secretary9”. (3) The following shall be the nominated members:-- (a) One Social Worker; and (b) One Representative of Women. (4) The State Government may nominate in consultation with the Chief Justice of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana, two persons as specified in sub-rule (3) of this rule from amongst those possessing the qualifications and experience prescribed in sub-rule (5) of this rule. (5) A person shall not be qualified for nomination as a member of the District Legal Services Authority unless he is – (a) an eminent Social Worker who is engaged in the upliftment of the 7 Substituted by Haryana Government vide notification No. 20/17/2000-4JJ(I) dated 19-10-2000. 8 Substituted by Haryana Government vide notification No.S.O.45/C.A.39/1987/S.28/2009 dated 29.5.2009. 9 Substituted by Haryana Government vide notification No.S.O.45/C.A.39/1987/S.28/2009 dated 29.5.2009. The Haryana State Legal Services Authority Rules, 1996 33 weaker sections of the people, including Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Backward Classes, Women, Children and Rural Labour; or (b) an eminent person in the field of law; or (c) a person of repute who is specially interested in the implementation of the Legal Services Schemes.