Eligibility for Membership of the National Legislature 86 (1) The candidate for membership of either Chamber of the National Legislature shall:(a) be a Sudanese, (b) be at least twenty-one years of age, (c) be of sound mind, (d) be literate, (e) not have been convicted during the previous seven years of an offence involving honesty or moral turpitude. (2) Membership of the National Assembly shall not be combined with representation at the Council of States. (3) Members of Southern Sudan Assembly or Executive, Governors and members of state legislatures or executives, shall not be eligible for membership of the National Legislature while occupying any of the aforementioned positions. (4) Representation at the Council of States shall not be combined with membership of the National Council of Ministers. Lapse of Membership of the National Legislature 87 (1) Membership of the National Legislature shall lapse by a resolution passed by the appropriate Chamber in any of the following cases:(a) mental infirmity or physical incapacity, (b) conviction for an offence involving honesty or moral turpitude, (c) absence from one full session of the appropriate Chamber without permission or acceptable excuse, (d) announcement of his/her written resignation in the appropriate Chamber, (e) change of political affiliation, identity or party on which he/she was elected to the National Assembly, (f) relief by the appropriate state legislature by a decision supported by two-thirds of its members in the case of representatives at the Council of States, (g) assumption of the office of minister in the Government of Southern Sudan, Governor or state minister, (h) death. 33