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A person who

(a) is elected or appointed as a member of a District Assembly while that person is not qualified to be elected or appointed and sits or votes in the District Assembly,

(b) sits or votes in a District Assembly after the seat in the District Assembly has become vacant knowing or having reasonable grounds for knowing that the seat has become vacant, or

(c) sits or votes in a District Assembly after that person has become disqualified from sitting or voting in the District Assembly, knowing or having reasonable grounds for knowing that that person is disqualified, commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of not less than one hundred penalty units and not more than two hundred penalty units or to a term of imprisonment of not less than three months and not more than six months or to both the fine and the imprisonment.