Part V · The President and Vice-President
Article 59 Conditions of President's office.
This article sets the conditions of the President's office. The President cannot be a member of Parliament or a state legislature. Any such seat falls vacant on election as President. The President cannot hold any other office of profit. The President may use the official residences without rent and draws emoluments set by Parliament.
- (1) The President shall not be a member of either House of Parliament or of a House of the Legislature of any State, and if a member of either House of Parliament or of a House of the Legislature of any State be elected President, he shall be deemed to have vacated his seat in that House on the date on which he enters upon his office as President.
- (2) The President shall not hold any other office of profit.
- (3) The President 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 so made, such emoluments, allowances and privileges as are specified in the Second Schedule.
- (4) The emoluments and allowances of the President shall not be diminished during his term of office.
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This article sets the conditions of the President's office. The President cannot be a member of Parliament or a state legislature. Any such seat falls vacant on election as President. The President cannot hold any other office of profit. The President may use the official residences without rent and draws emoluments set by Parliament. Those emoluments cannot be reduced during the term.