Government of India Act 1935

Qualifications dependent on property, &c.

3 Subject as aforesaid, a person shall also be qualified to be included in the electoral roll for any territorial constituency if he either—

(a) is the owner of land in the Province assessed to land revenue of not less than five rupees per annum; or

(b) is a tenant with a right of occupancy as defined in Chapter II of the Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887, in respect of land in the Province assessed to land revenue of not less than five rupees per annum; or

(c) is an assignee of land revenue in the Province amounting to not less than ten rupees per annum; or

(d) is a tenant of not less than six acres of irrigated land in the constituency, or of not less than twelve acres of unirrigated land in the constituency; or

(e) has throughout the twelve months immediately preceding the prescribed date owned immovable property in the Province of the value of not less than two thousand rupees or of an annual rental value of not less than sixty rupees, not being land assessed to land revenue; or

(f) has throughout the twelve months preceding the prescribed date occupied as tenant in the constituency immovable property of an annual rental value of not less than sixty rupees, not being land assessed to land revenue; or

(g) is a zaildar, inamdar, sufedposh or lambardar in the constituency :

Provided that the provisions of sub-paragraph (d) of this paragraph shall be deemed to be complied with in the case of a person who is the tenant of both irrigated and unirrigated land in the constituency if the sum of the area of that irrigated land and half the area of that unirrigated land is not less than six acres.