Section 15 — Penalty for sitting and voting before making oath or affirmation or when not qualified or when disqualified.

15. Penalty for sitting and voting before making oath or affirmation or when not qualified or 

when disqualified.―If a person sits or votes as a member of the Legislative Assembly of 
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[the Union 

territory] before he has complied with the requirements of section 11 or when he knows that he is not 

qualified or that he is disqualified for membership thereof, he shall be liable in respect of each day on 

which he so sits or votes to a penalty of five hundred rupees to be recovered as a debt due to the Union.