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The Constitution of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh

Article 122Qualifications for registration as voter

In forcePart VII ELECTIONS
  • Not in the index: Appendix (some pages are scanned images, not read: [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21])

Part VII ELECTIONS

art. 122

122. Qualifications for registration as voter (1) The elections [* * * ] to Parliament shall be on the basis of adult franchise. (2) A person shall be entitled to be enrolled on the electoral roll for a constituency delimited for the purpose of election to the Parliament, if he - (a) is a citizen of Bangladesh; (b) is not less than eighteen years of age; [(c) does not stand declared by a competent court to be of unsound mind ; (d) is or is deemed by law to be a resident of that constituency ; and (e) has not been convicted of any offence under the Bangladesh Collaborators (Special Tribunals) Order, 1972.] [* * *]

  1. 72. Clause (3) was omitted by section 13 of the Constitution (Twelfth Amendment) Act, 1991 (Act No. XXVIII of 1991)
  2. 71. Substituted for sub-clauses (c) and (d) by the Constitution (Fifteenth Amendment) Act, 2011 (Act XIV of 2011), section 36.

End of art. 122. Not in the index for this Act: Appendix (some pages are scanned images, not read: [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21]).

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