Section 6. Disqualifications for membership

(I) A person shall be disqualified for being elected or nominated a member of the Council if he — (a) is not registered under this Act; (b) has been sentenced by a criminal court to imprisonment for an offence punishable with imprisonment for a term exceeding six months or to transportation, such sentence not having subsequently been reversed or remitted, and such person’s disqualification on account of such sentence not having been remitted by an order which the 4[State Government] is hereby empowered to make, if it thinks fit, in this behalf; (c) is an undischarged insolvent; or (d) has been adjudged by a competent court to be of unsound mind. (2) Provided that, in the case of first elections held and first nominations made under this Act, clause (a) of sub-section (I) shall be read as if it were "is not qualified to be registered under this Act."