Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Disqualification and removal of non-official members of the Managing Committee.- (1) A person shall be disqualified to be nominated as a non-official member, if he- (a) is of unsound mind and stands so declared by a competent court; or (b) is an undischarged insolvent; or (c) has been convicted by a criminal court for an offence involving moral turpitude, unless such conviction has been set aside. (2) A non-official member shall be disqualified for being a member of the Managing Committee, if he- (a) becomes subject to any of the disqualifications specified in sub-section (1); or (b) absent himself, without permission of the Managing Committee, for three consecutive meetings of the Managing Committee: Provided that such absence may be condoned by the Managing Committee before the publication of the notification under sub-section (3) removing him form office; (c) cease to be a member of, or is a defaulter to, the fund, in case he is a member of the Fund. (3) The Government may, by notification in the Gazette, remove any non- official member from office,- (a) if he is subject to any of the disqualifications referred to in sub-section (2); or (b) if, in the opinion of the Government, he is incapable of acting as a member of the Managing Committee or has abused his position in such manner as to render his continuance, as such member, detrimental to public interest: Provided that before removing a member of the Managing Committee under this sub-section, he shall be given a reasonable opportunity to show cause, why he should not be removed. (4) A non-official member removed under clause(a) of sub-section (3) shall be disqualified for renomination so long as the disqualifications referred to in the said clause continue. (5) A non-official member removed under clause (b) of sub-section (3) shall not be eligible for renomination until he is declared by an order of the Government to be no longer ineligible.