7. (1) There shall be a legislative council in every governor’s province, which shall consist of the members of the executive council and of members nominated or elected as provided by this Act.The governor shall not be a member of the legislative council, but shall have the right of addressing the council, and may for that purpose require the attendance of its members.
(2) The number of members of the governors’ legislative councils shall be in accordance with the table set out in the First Schedule to this Act; and of the members of each council not more than twenty per cent shall be official members, and at least seventy per cent shall be elected members Provided that-
(a) subject to the maintenance of the above proportions, rules under the principal Act may provide for increasing the number of members of any council, as specified in that schedule; and
(b) the governor may, for the purposes of any Bill introduced or proposed to be introduced in his legislative council, nominate, in the case of Assam one person, and in the case of other provinces not more than two persons, having special knowledge or experience of the subject-matter of the Bill, and those persons shall, in relation to the Bill, have for the period for which they are nominated all the rights of members of the council, and shall be in addition to the numbers above referred to; and
(c) members nominated to the legislative council of the Central Provinces by the governor as the result of elections, held in the Assigned Districts of Berar shall be deemed to be elected members of the legislative council of the Central Provinces.
(3) The powers of a governor’s legislative council may be exercised notwithstanding any vacancy in the council.
(4) Subject as aforesaid, provision may be made by rules under the principal Act as to-
(a) the term of office of nominated members of governors’ legislative councils, and the manner of filling casual vacancies occurring by reason of absence of members from India, inability to attend to duty, death, acceptance of office, resignation duly accepted, or otherwise; and
(b) the conditions under which and manner in which persons may be nominated as members of governor’s legislative councils; and
(c) the qualification of electors, the constitution of constituencies, and the method of election for governor’s legislative councils, including the number of members to be elected by communal and other electorates, and any matters incidental or ancillary thereto; and
(d) the qualifications for being and for being nominated or elected a member of any such council; and
(e) the final decision of doubts or disputes as to the validity of any election; and the manner in which the rules are to be carried into effect: Provided that rules as to any such matters as aforesaid may provide for delegating to the local government such power as may be specified in the rules of making subsidiary regulations affecting the same matters.
(5) Subject to any such rules, any person who is a ruler or subject of any State in India may be nominated as a member of a governor’s legislative council.