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(3) A person shall be disqualified for nomination and
election as the President if he is disqualified for election as a member
of the National Assembly by virtue of section 69 of this Constitution
or any law made under that section of this Constitution.
(4) A person shall not be qualified to be nominated for
election as President if he holds any office of emolument or profit in
the public service of, or any publicly elected office in, any country
other than Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
conditions
Other
conditions
of office.
52. (1) If a member of the National Assembly is elected to
the office of President, the seat of that member in the Assembly shall
thereupon become vacant.
(2) Except in the case of a person acting as, or for the
time being performing the functions of, President under section 59 of
this Constitution, the President shall not hold any office of
emolument or profit in the public service or otherwise, other than that
of President.
(3) The salary and allowances of the President and his
other terms and conditions of service shall not be altered to his
disadvantage during his tenure of office.
conditions
Date for
election.
53. (1) The Speaker shall be responsible for arranging the
holding of elections for the office of President.
(2) The date of every election under this section shall
be announced in the Official Gazette by the Speaker within such
number of days in advance as may be prescribed by Parliament.
(3) An election for President shall be held not less
than ninety days nor more than one hundred and twenty days after the
first sitting of the transitional National Assembly referred to in section
11 of the Act, and the President who is so elected shall assume office
on the expiration of not more than thirty days next after his election.
(4) Thereafter, an election for President shall be held
not less than thirty days nor more than sixty days before the expiration
of the term of that office.
(5) Where the office of President becomes vacant
under section 61 of this Constitution before the expiration of the term
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