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A person shall be disqualified for being chosen as, or for being, a member of the State Library Council, the District Library Council or the [Taluk Library Council] (a) if he absents himself without leave being granted by the State Library Council or the District Library Council or the [Taluk Library Council,] as the case may be, from three consecutive meetings of the Council [xxxx], or (b) If he ceases to hold the office or be a member of the body or authority by virtue of which he has been elected; or (c) if he has been sentenced by a criminal court for an offence involving moral turpitude and punishable with imprisonment for a term exceeding three months, such sentence not having been subsequently reversed, quashed or remitted; or (d) If he is of unsound mind and stands so declared by a competent court. Omitted by Act 20/1998 w.e.f. 22/05/1998. Substituted by ibid.