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If the State Election Commission is satisfied that a person:- (a) has failed to submit an account of election expenses within the time and in the manner prescribed and has no sufficient reason or justification for such failure or (b) has submitted false accounts; (c) has incurred election expenses in excess of the limit prescribed, it shall, by order published in the Gazette, declare him to be disqualified and such person shall be disqualified for being elected as the Councillor 8A[for a period of five years from the date of such order.] Section 89 substituted by Act 14 of 1999, w.e.f. 24-3-1999. Prior to the substitution it read as under: "89. Disqualification for failure to lodge account of election expenses.- If the State Election Commission is satisfied that a person- (a) has failed to lodge an account of election expenses within the time and in the manner prescribed; and (b) has no sufficient reason or justification for the failure, and (c) has submitted accounts which are false, the State Election Commission shall, by order published in the Gazette, declare him to be disqualified and any such person shall be disqualified for a period of three years from the date of the order." Substituted for the words "till the expiry of the period of the Council from the date of the order" by Act 14 of 2000, w.e.f. 18/01/2000.