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THE GAZETTER OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY
[PART II—
disadvantage after their appointment.
(6) The Central Government shall provide the Chief Information Commissioner and
the Information Commissioners with such officers and employees as may be necessary for
the efficient performance of their functions under this Act, and the salaries and allowances
payable to and the terms and conditions of service of the officers and other employees
appointed for the purpose of this Act shall be such as may be prescribed.
14. (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (3), the Chief Information
Commissioner or any Information Commissioner shall be removed from his office only by
order of the President on the ground of proved misbehaviour or incapacity after the
Supreme Court, on a reference made to it by the President, has, on inquiry, reported that the
Chief Information Commissioner or any Information Commissioner, as the case may be,
ought on such ground be removed.
Removalof Chief
Information
Commissioner or
Information
Commissioner.
(2) The President may suspend from office, and if deem necessary prohibit also from
attending the office during inquiry, the Chief Information Commissioner or Information
Commissioner in respect of whom a reference has been made to the Supreme Court under
sub-section (1) until the President has passed orders on receipt of the report of the Supreme
Court on such reference.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), the President may by order
remove from office the Chief Information Commissioner or any Information Commissioner
if the Chief Information Commissioner or a Information Commissioner, as the case may
be,—
(a) is adjudged an insolvent; or
(b) has been convicted of an offence which, in the opinion of the President, involves
moral turpitude; or
(c) engages during his term of office in any paid employment outside the duties of
his office; or
(d) is, in the opinion of the President, unfit to continue in office by reason of
infirmity of mind or body; or
(e) has acquired such financial or other interest as is likely to affect prejudicially his
functions as the Chief Information Commissioner or a Information
Commissioner.
(4) If the Chief Information Commissioner or a Information Commissioner in any
way, concerned or interested in any contract or agreement made by or on behalf of the
Government of India or participates in any way in the profit thereof or in any benefit
or emolument arising therefrom otherwise than as a member and in common with the
other members of an incorporated company, he shall, for the purposes of sub-section
(1), be deemed to be guilty of misbehaviour.
CHAPTER IV
The State Information Commission
15. (1) Every State Government shall, by notification in the Official Gazette,
constitute a body to be known as the ......... (name of the State) Information Commission to
exercise the powers conferred on, and to perform the functions assigned to, it under this
Act.
(2) The State Information Commission shall consist of—
(a) the State Chief Information Commissioner, and
(b) such number of State Information Commissioners, not exceeding ten, as
may be deemed necessary.
Constitution of
State Information
Commission.
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