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Qualification of the Pyithu Hluttaw representatives
120.
Persons who possess the following qualifications shall be entitled to be elected as
the Pyithu Hluttaw representatives :
(a)
person who has attained the age of 25 years;
(b)
citizen who was born of both parents who are citizens;
(c)
person who has resided in the Union of Myanmar for at least ten consecutive
years up to the time of his election as Pyithu Hluttaw representative;
Proviso: The official period of stay in a foreign country with the permission
of the Union shall be counted as a residing period in the Union,
(d)
person who possesses qualifications prescribed by the Election Law.
Disqualification for the Pyithu Hluttaw Representatives
121.
The following persons shall not be entitled to be elected as the Pyithu Hluttaw
representatives :
(a)
a person serving prison term, having been convicted by the Court concerned
for having committed an offence;
(b)
a person who has no right to be elected a Pyithu Hluttaw representative
due to having committed an offence relating to disqualification for the Pyithu
Hluttaw representative and being convicted for such offence, unless the
period specified by the authority for him has not expired, before or after
the Constitution comes into operation;
(c)
person who is of unsound mind as adjudged by the relevant law;
(d)
person who is an undischarged insolvent as being declared by the relevant
court;
(e)
person who owes allegiance to a foreign government, or subject to a
foreign government or a citizen of a foreign country;