Government of India Act 1935

9 Subject as aforesaid, a person shall be qualified to be included in the electoral roll for any constituency situated wholly or partly in the district of Sambalpur if, in that district, he either—

(a) holds land, not situated in a municipality or a sanitation area, for which he is liable to pay rent or land revenue of not less than one rupee per annum or village cess of not less than one anna; or

(b) is in occupation of a house for which he is liable to pay-rent of not less than six rupees per annum, not being a house in a municipality or sanitation area; or

(c) is assessed to an annual tax of at least twelve annas under the Central Provinces Sanitation Act, 1902, or the Central Provinces Village Sanitation and Public Management Act, 1920; or

(d) is a village servant holding office as a jhankar, ganda, kotwar, jagalia or mahar, and holds land recorded in the record of rights as service land :

Provided that, in relation to the original preparation of electoral rolls and revisions thereof within three years from the commencement of Part III of this Act, this paragraph shall have effect as if for the references in sub-paragraph (a) thereof to one rupee and one anna there were substituted respectively references to two rupees and two annas.