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(1) The Commissionshall associate with itself for thepurpose of assisting it in its duties in respect of each State, ten personsfive of whom shall be members of the House of the People representingthat State and five shall bemembers of the Legislative Assembly ofthat State:
Provided that wherethe number of members of theHouse of the People representing any State is five or less, then, all suchmembers shall be the associate members for that State and in the latter casethe total number of associate membersshall be less than ten by such numberas by which the total number of membersof the House of the People representing that State is less than five.
(2) The persons to be soassociated from each State shallbe nominated, in the case of the membersof the House of the People, by the Speaker of that House, and in the case ofmembers of a Legislative Assembly, bythe Speaker of that Assembly, having due regard to the composition of the Houseor, as the case may be, of the Assembly.
(3) The first nominations to be made under sub-section (2)--
(a) shall be made by theSpeakers of the several Legislative Assemblies within one month, and by theSpeaker of the House of the People within two months, of the commencement ofthis Act; and
(b) shall becommunicated to the Chief Election Commissioner, and where the nominations aremade by the Speaker of a Legislative Assembly, also to the Speaker of the Houseof the People.
(4) None of theassociate members shall have a right to vote or to sign anydecision of the Commission.
(5) The Commission shallhave power to call upon--
(a) the Registrar-General and CensusCommissioner, India or hisnominee; or
(b) the Surveyor General of India orhis nominee; or
(c) any other officer of the Central Government or State Government; or
(d) any expert in geographical informationsystem; or
(e) any other person,
whose expertise and knowledge are considered necessary by theCommission to provide assistance to it in addition 10 the assistance provided by the personsreferred to in subsection (1) and the officers and persons so called uponshall be duty bound to assist theCommission.
(6) The Secretary to theElection Commission shall be theex officio Secretary of the Commission and shall discharge hisfunctions with the assistance of the employees of the Election Commission underthe supervision of the Chairperson of the Commission.