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29. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Article, a person shall not be qualified to be a Member of the Legislative Assembly who—


 * (a) is and has been found or declared to be of unsound mind;


 * (b) is an undischarged bankrupt;


 * (c) holds an office of profit;


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


 * (e) 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;


 * (f) 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;


 * (g) is disqualified under any law relating to offences in connection with elections to either House of Parliament or to the Legislative Assembly 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.


 * (2) The disqualification of a person under paragraph (d) or paragraph (e) of clause (1) of this Article may be removed by the Yang di-Pertuan Negara and shall, if not so removed, cease at the end of five years beginning from the date on which the return mentioned in the said paragraph (d) was required to be lodged or, as the case may be, the date on which the person convicted as mentioned in the said paragraph (e) was released from custody or the date on which the fine mentioned in the said paragraph (e) was imposed on such person; and a person shall not be disqualified under paragraph (f) of clause (1) of this Article by reason only of anything done by him before he became a citizen.

(3) In paragraph (f) of clause (1) of this Article " foreign country " has the same meaning as in the Federal Constitution.

30. (1) Every Member of the Legislative Assembly shall cease to be a Member at the next dissolution of the Legislative Assembly after he has been elected, or previously thereto if his seat becomes vacant, under the provisions of this Constitution.


 * (2) The seat of a Member of the Legislative Assembly shall become vacant—


 * (a) if he ceases to be a citizen of Singapore; or


 * (b) if, by writing under his hand addressed to the Speaker, he resigns his seat in the Legislative Assembly; or


 * (c) if during two consecutive months in each of which sittings of the Legislative Assembly (or any committee of the Legislative Assembly to which he has been appointed) are held,