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Constitution of Selection and Search Committee: (1) The Chairperson and Members shall be appointed by the Governor after obtaining the recommendations of a Selection Committee consisting of— (a) the Chief Minister—Chairman; (b) the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly—Member; (c) the Leader of Opposition or Leader of Opposition Group in the Legislative Assembly—Member; (d) the Chief Justice of the Gauhati High Court or any Judge nominated by him __Member (2) No appointment of a Chairperson or a Member shall be invalid merely by reason of any vacancy in the Selection Committee. (3) The Selection Committee shall for the purposes of selecting the Chairperson and Members of the Lokayukta and for preparing a panel of persons to be considered for appointment as such, constitute a Search Committee consisting of at least five persons having special knowledge and expertise in the matters relating to anti-corruption policy, public administration, vigilance, policy making, finance including insurance and banking, law, and management, or in any other matter which, in the opinion of the Selection Committee, may be useful in making selection of the Chairperson and Members of the Lokayukta. Provided that not less than fifty percent of the Members of the Search Committee shall be from amongst the persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes, Minorities and women as the case may be ; (4) The Selection Committee shall follow the procedure prescribed in the Rules for selecting the Chairperson and Members of the Lokayukta. (5) The term of the Search Committee referred to in sub-section (3), the fees and allowances payable to its members and the manner of selection of panel of names shall be such as may be prescribed.