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Disqualification for members.- (1) A person shall be disqualified for being chosen and for being member of a Zilla Panchayat,- (a) if he is so disqualified by or under any law for the time being in force for the purposes of the elections to the State Legislature: Provided that no person shall be disqualified on the ground that he is less than twenty five years, if he has attained the age of twenty-one years. (b) if he has been sentenced by a criminal court to imprisonment for a term exceeding three months in respect of an offence under the Karnataka Excise Act , 1965 (Karnataka Act 21 of 1966), such sentence not having been subsequently reversed or quashed or the offence pardoned; or (c) if an order has been passed against him under section 117 of the Code Of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Central Act 2 of 1974) in proceedings instituted under section 110 of that code, such order not having been subsequently reversed or quashed ; or (d) if he has been dismissed from service under any local authority; or 2[(d-1) if he has been subject to compulsory retirement or removal or dismissal from the service of the Central Government or the State Government; or. (d-2) “if he has been subject to compulsory retirement or removal or dismissal from the service of the Co-operative Society and institutions or if, he has been removed from the post of Chairperson and membership of the Co-operative society and institutions; or]2 (e) if having been a legal or medical practitioner or a chartered accountant has been disenrolled or suspended by order of a competent authority, the disqualification in the latter case being operative during the period of such suspension; or (f) if he has been removed from membership of any local authority; or (g) if he holds any office of profit under any local or other authority subject to the control of the Central Government, the State Government or the Government of any other State, other than such office as are declared by rules made under this Act not to disqualify the holder; or Explanation.- For the purpose of this clause a person shall not be deemed to hold an office of profit under the Zilla Panchayat, Taluk Panchayat or Grama Panchayat by reason only that he is an Adhyaksha or Upadhyaksha of Zilla Panchayat, Taluk Panchayat or Grama Panchayat. (h) if save as hereinafter provided, he has directly or indirectly any share or interest in any work done by order of the Zilla Panchayat or in any contract or employment with or under, or by, or on behalf of, the Zilla Panchayat 1[or if he is either directly or indirectly by himself or by his partner or agent or employee involved in obtaining or execution of any such work or contract on behalf of the Zilla Panchayat or of any contract for the supply of any goods and services to the Zilla Panchayat; or] 1