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Prevention of disqualifications for membership of the Legislative Assembly of Himachal Pradesh.- A person shall not be disqualified for being chosen as, and for being, a member of the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly by reason only of the fact that he holds any of the following offices of profit under the Government of India or the Government of any State:- (a) the office of the Deputy Minister or Minister of State; (b) any office held by a Minister, Minister of State, or Deputy Minister whether ex-officio or by name; 1[(b-a) the office of the Political Advisor to the Chief Minister;] (c) the office of the Speaker or the Deputy Speaker of the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly or of Parliament or of the Legislative Assembly of any other State; (d) the office of the Chief Parliamentary Secretary or Parliamentary Secretary; (e) the office of the Chief Whip, Deputy Chief Whip or Whip in any Legislative Assembly or in Parliament; (f) the office of village revenue officer whether called a lamberdar, malguzar, patel, deshmukh or by any other name, whose duty is to collect land revenue and who is remunerated by a share of or commission on, the amount of land revenue collected by him, but who does not discharge any police functions; (g) any office in the National Cadet Corps, the Territorial Army, the Air Defence Reserve and the Auxiliary Air Force under any law for the time being in force; (h) the office of a member of a Home Guard constituted under any law for the time being in force in any State; (i) the office of Chairman or member of the Syndicate, Senate, Executive Committee, Council or Court of a University or any other body connected with a University; (j) the office of the Vice-Chancellor of any University; 2[j-a) the office of the Chairman or Vice-Chairman of any statutory or non-statutory body, where the power to make the appointment or power to remove the person from the office is vested in the State Government;] (k) the office of a member of any delegation or mission sent outside India by the Government of India or the Government