Section 29 — Penalty for sitting and voting before making oath or affirmation or when not qualified or when disqualified.

29. 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 before he has
complied with the requirements of section 24 or when he knows that he is not qualified or that he is
disqualified for membership thereof, or that he is prohibited from doing so by the provisions of any
law made by Parliament or the Legislative Assembly of the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, 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 said Union territory.