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(except Officers on the Staff of the Militia receiving permanent salaries) unless he be otherwise disqualified.
No contractor with the Gov. of Canada to be a member of the H. of Commons.2. No person whosoever holding or enjoying, undertaking or executing, directly or indirectly, alone or with any other, by himself or by the interposition of any trustee or third party, any contract or agreement with Her Majesty, or with any Officer or Department, with respect to the public service of Canada, or under which any public money of Canada is to be paid for any service or work, shall be eligible as a Member of the House of Commons, nor shall he sit or vote in the same.
Election of persons disqualified, to be null.3. If any person hereby disqualified or declared incapable of being elected a Member of the House of Commons, is nevertheless elected and returned as a member, his election and return shall be null and void.
No disqualified person shall seat and vote.4. No person disqualified by the next preceding sections or by any other law, to be elected a Member of the House of Commons, shall sit or vote under such disqualification :
Penalty for so doing.2. And if any person disqualified or declared incapable of sitting or voting in the House of Commons, by the first, second or third sections, sits or votes therein, he shall thereby forfeit the sum of two thousand dollars, for each and every day on which he so sits or votes ; and such sum may be recovered from him by any person who will sue for the same, by action of debt, bill, plaint or information in any Court of competent civil jurisdiction in Canada.
Members accepting Office &c. to vacate his seat.5. If any Member of the House of Commons, by accepting any office or becoming a party to any contract or agreement, becomes disqualified by law to continue to sit or vote in the same, his election shall thereby become void, and the seat of such Member shall be vacated, and a Writ shall forthwith issue for a new election as if he were naturally dead ; May be reelected under sect. 1, par. 2.but he may be re-elected if he be eligible under the first section of this Act.
Certain Officers may resign one office and accept the same or another within a month without vacating.6. Nevertheless, whenever any person holding the office of President of the Privy Council, Receiver General, Minister of Finance, Minister of Justice, Minister of Militia and Defence, Secretary of State, Secretary of State for the Provinces, Minister of Public Works, Postmaster General, Minister of Agriculture and Emigration, Minister of Inland Revenue, Minister of Customs, or Minister of Marine and Fisheries, and being at the same time a Member of the House of Commons, resigns his office, and within one month after his resignation accepts any of the said offices, he shall not thereby vacate his seat in the said House of Commons.7.
