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(c) having studied in an educational institution situated in the Changwat
where he or she stands for election for a consecutive period of not less than five academic
years;
(d) having served in the official service or performed duties in a State
agency, or having had his or her name appear in the household register in the Changwat
where he or she stands for election, as the case may be, for a consecutive period of not less
than five years.
Section 98. A person under any of the following prohibitions shall be
prohibited from exercising the right to stand for election in an election of Members of the
House of Representatives:
(1) being addicted to narcotics;
(2) being bankrupt or having been dishonestly bankrupt;
(3) being the owner of, or a shareholder in any newspaper or mass media
business;
(4) being a person under the prohibitions from exercising his or her right to
vote under section 96 (1), (2) or (4);
(5) being under temporary suspension of the right to stand for election, or
being a person whose right to stand for election has been revoked;
(6) being sentenced by a judgement to imprisonment and imprisoned by a
warrant of the Court;
(7) having been discharged for a period of less than ten years up to the date
of election after being imprisoned except for an offence committed through negligence or a
petty offence;
(8) having been dismissed from official service, a State agency or a State
enterprise on the grounds of dishonest performance of duties or being deemed as having
committed dishonest acts or wrongful conducts in the official service;
(9) having been ordered by a final judgement or order of the Court that his or
her assets shall vest in the State on the grounds of unusual wealth, or having been
sentenced by a final judgement to imprisonment on the grounds of committing an offence
under the law on prevention and suppression of corruption;
(10) having been convicted by a final judgement for committing: a
malfeasance in public office or in judicial office; an offence under the law on wrongdoings
of officials in a State organisation or agency; an offence against property committed in bad
faith under the Penal Code; an offence under the law on the borrowing of money
amounting to public fraud; an offence of being a producer, importer, exporter or seller
under the law on narcotics; an offence of being a banker or a proprietor under the law on
gambling; an offence under the law on the prevention and suppression of human trafficking;