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1. No person shall be qualified to be elected as a member of the House who- a. is, by virtue of his own act, under any acknowledgement of allegiance, obedience or adherence to a foreign power or state; b. is a Senator or temporary member of the Senate; c. is an undischarged bankrupt, having been declared bankrupt under any law; d. is a person certified to be insane or otherwise adjudged to be of unsound mind under any law; e. is under sentence of death imposed on him by a court or has been sentenced to imprisonment (by whatever name called) for a term of or exceeding twelve months and has not either suffered the punishment to which he was sentenced or such other punishment as may by competent authority have been substituted therefor, or received a free pardon; f. is disqualified for appointment to the House by or under any law by reason of his connection with any offence relating to elections; g. holds or is acting in any public office or in the office of judge of the Supreme Court or Ombudsman or is a member of the Constituencies Boundaries Commission, the Judicial and Legal Services Commission, the Public Service Commission or the Police Service Commission; h. has, within the period of ten years immediately preceding the proposed date of his election as a member of the House, been convicted on indictment by a court of competent jurisdiction of theft, fraud, or other such crime involving dishonesty and who- i. has not appealed against that conviction, or ii. has appealed against that conviction and whose appeal has not been allowed; and iii. has not received a free pardon in respect of the offence; or i. is a minister of religion.