A person shall not be qualified to be chosen to fill a seat in the Legislative Assembly of a State unless --
(a) in the case of a seat reserved for the Scheduled Castes or for the Scheduled Tribes of that State, he is a member of any of those castes or of those tribes, as the case may be, and is an elector for any Assembly constituency in that State;
(b) in the case of a seat reserved for an autonomous district of Assam,1[***] he is member of a2[Scheduled Tribe of any autonomous district] and is an elector for the Assembly constituency in which such seat or any other seat is reserved for that district; and
(c) in the case of any other seat, he is an elector for any Assembly constituency in that State:
3[Provided that for the period referred to in clause (2) of article 371 A, a person shall not be qualified to be chosen to fill any seat allocated to the Tuensang district in the Legislative Assembly of Nagaland unless he is a member of the regional council referred to in that article.]
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1. Certain words omitted by the North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) (Adaptation of Laws on Union Subjects ) Order, 1974 w.e.f. 21-1-1972.
2 . Substitutedby Act 47 of 1966, Section 19, for "Scheduled Tribe of that district" w.e.f. 14-12-196
3 . Inserted by Act 27 of 1962, Section 11.