Part VI.—The State.—Arts. 157–160.
Qualifications for appointment as Governor.
157. No person shall be eligible for appointment as Governor unless he is a citizen of India and has completed the age of thirty-five years.
Conditions of Governor's office.
158. (I) The Governor shall not be a member of either House of Parliament or of a House of the Legislature of any State of specified in the First Schedule, and if a member of either House of Parliament or of a House of the Legislature of any such State be appointed Governor, he shall be deemed to have vacated his seat in that House on the date on which he enters upon his office as Governor.
(2) The Governor shall not hold any other office of profit.
(3) The Governor shall be entitled without payment of rent to the use of his official residences and shall be also entitled to such emoluments, allowances and privileges as may be determined by Parliament by law and, until provision in that behalf is made, such emoluments, allowances and privileges as are specified in the Second Schedule.
[१][(3A) Where the same person is appointed as Governor of two or more States, the emoluments and allowances payable to the Governor shall be allocated among the States in such proportion as the President may by order determine.]
(4) The emoluments and allowances of the Governor shall not be diminished during his term of office.
Oath or affirmation by h. Governor.
I59. Every Governor and every person discharging the functions of the Governor shall, before entering upon his office, make and subscribe in the presence of the Chief Justice of the High Court exercising jurisdiction in relation to the State, or, in his absence, the senior most Judge of that Court available, an oath or affirmation in the following form, that is to say—
- 'I, A.B., doswear in the name of God
solemnly affirm
- 'I, A.B., doswear in the name of God
- that I will faithfully execute the office of Governor) (or functions of the Governor) of_____________(name of the State) and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the Constitution and the law and that I will devote myself to the service and well-being of the people of______________(name of the State)."
Discharge of the functions of the Governor in certain contingències.
I60. The President may make such provision as he thinks fit for the discharge of the functions of the Governor of a State in any contingency not provided for in this Chapter.
- ↑ Ins, by the Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Act, 1956 s. 7.
