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 * (d) having been nominated for election to either House of Parliament or to the Council Negri, or having acted as election agent to a person so nominated, he has failed to lodge any return of election expenses required by law within the time and in the manner so required ;


 * (e) he has been convicted of an offence by a court of law in any part of the Federation and sentenced to imprisonment for a term of not less than one year or to a fine of not less than two thousand dollars and has not received a free pardon in respect thereof ;


 * (f) he is disqualified under any law relating to offences in connection with elections to either House of Parliament or to the Council Negri by reason of having been convicted of such an offence, or having in proceedings relating to such an election been proved guilty of an act constituting such an offence ; or


 * (g) he has voluntarily acquired citizenship of, or exercised rights of citizenship in, a foreign country or has made a declaration of allegiance to a foreign country.


 * (2) Paragraph (c) of clause (1) shall not apply to the appointment of a person as a nominated member.


 * (3) The disqualification of a person under paragraph (d) or paragraph (e) of clause (1) may be removed by the Governor and shall, if not so removed, cease at the end of the period of five years beginning with the date on which the return mentioned in paragraph (d) of that clause was required to be lodged, or, as the case may be, the date on which the person convicted as mentioned in paragraph (e) of that clause was released from custody, or the date on which the fine mentioned in that paragraph was imposed ; and a person shall not be disqualified under paragraph (g) of clause (1) by reason only of anything done by him before he became a citizen.


 * (4) In paragraph (g) of clause (1) " foreign country " has the same meaning as in the Federal Constitution.


 * 18. (1) Every elected or nominated member of the Council Negri shall vacate his seat in the Council on a dissolution of the Council.


 * (2) An elected or nominated member shall also vacate his seat in the Council if—


 * (a) he ceases to be qualified for election or appointment as such a member of the Council ;


 * (b) he resigns his seat by writing under his hand addressed to the Speaker ; or


 * (c) he is absent without the leave of the Speaker from every sitting of the Council for three consecutive meetings.


 * (3) For the purposes of paragraph (c) of clause (2), "meeting" means any sitting or sittings of the Council commencing when the Council first meets after being summoned at any time and terminating when the Council is adjourned sine die or at the conclusion of a Session.