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Constitution of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh
Provided that nothing in this clause shall prevent Parliament from delegating to any person or authority, by
Act of Parliament, power to make orders, rules, regulations, bye laws or other instruments having legislative
effect.
(2) Parliament shall consist of three hundred members to be elected in accordance with law from single
territorial constituencies by direct election and, for so long as clause (3) is effective, the members provided
for in that clause; the members shall be designated as Members of Parliament.
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[ (3) Until the dissolution of Parliament occurring next after the expiration of the period of twenty five
years beginning from the date of the first meeting of the Parliament next after the Parliament in existence at
the time of the commencement of the Constitution (Seventeenth Amendment) Act, 2018, there shall be
reserved fifty seats exclusively for women members and they will be elected by the aforesaid members in
accordance with law on the basis of procedure of proportional representation in the Parliament through single
transferable vote :
Provided that nothing in this clause shall be deemed to prevent a woman from being elected to any of the
seats provided for in clause (2) of this article.]
37[ (3A)
For the remaining period of the Parliament in existence at the time of the commencement of the
Constitution (Fifteenth Amendment) Act, 2011, Parliament shall consist of three hundred members elected by
direct election provided for in clause (2) and fifty women members provided for in clause (3).]
(4) The seat of Parliament shall be in the capital.
66. (1) A person shall subject to the provisions of clause (2), be qualified to be elected as, and to be, a
member of Parliament if he is a citizen of Bangladesh and has attained the age of twentyfive years.
(2) A person shall be disqualified for election as, or for being, a member of Parliament who –
Qualifications and
disqualifications for election
to Parliament
(a) is declared by a competent court to be of unsound mind;
(b) is an undischarged insolvent;
(c) acquires the citizenship of, or affirms or acknowledges allegiance to, a foreign state;
(d) has been, on conviction for a criminal offence involving moral turpitude, sentenced to imprisonment for a
term of not less than two years, unless a period of five years has elapsed since his release; 38[ * * *]
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[ (e) has been convicted of any offence under the Bangladesh Collaborators (Special Tribunals) Order, 1972
;
(f) holds any office of profit in the service of the Republic other than an office which is declared by law not
to be disqualified its holder ; or]
(g) is disqualified for such election by or under any law.
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[ (2A) Notwithstanding anything contained in subclause (c) of clause (2) of this article, if any person
being a citizen of Bangladesh by birth acquires the citizenship of a foreign State and thereafter such person
(i) in the case of dual citizenship, gives up the foreign citizenship ; or
(ii) in other cases, again accepts the citizenship of Bangladesh
the citizenship of a foreign State.]
for the purposes of this article, he shall not be deemed to acquire
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[ (3) For the purposes of this article, a person shall not be deemed to hold an office of profit in the
service of the Republic by reason only that he is the President, the Prime Minister, the Speaker, the Deputy
Speaker, a Minister, Minister of State or Deputy Minister.]
(4) If any dispute arises as to whether a member of Parliament has, after his election, become subject to
any of the disqualifications mentioned in clause (2) or as to whether a member of Parliament should vacate
his seat pursuant to article 70, the dispute shall be referred to the Election Commission to hear and
determine it and the decision of the Commission on such reference shall be final.
(5) Parliament may, by law, make such provision as it deems necessary for empowering the Election
Commission to give full effect to the provisions of clause (4).
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