1. (a) These rules shall apply to the election of members of all the State Councils in India.
(b) In the case of any repugnancy between the rules and any rule or rules of any of the State Councils, these rules shall prevail and the rules framed by the State Councils shall be void to the extent of such repugnancy.
2. The elections of members of the State Councils shall be in conformity with the proviso to Section 3(2) of the Act and these rules.
3. There shall be no limit to the number of candidates on the State rolls for at least 10 years that could be declared elected under these rules.
4. In the case of an election by a State Council for electing all the members specified in Section 3 (2)(b ) of the Act, the following procedure shall be adopted in the counting of votes:

ELECTION OF CANDIDATES WITH QUOTA
(a) If, at the end of any count, or at the end of the transfer of any parcel or sub-parcel of an excluded candidate the value of the voting papers credited to a candidate is equal to or greater than the quota, then, he shall be declared elected: .
PROVIDED that.,...
(i) No candidate whose name has not been on the State Roll or at least 10 years shall be elected under Section 3(2)(b) and the proviso thereto of the Act.
(a) if 7 candidates of less than 10 years' standing in the case .of a State Council where 15 members are to be elected, have been declared elected; or
(b) if 10 candidates of less than 10 years' standing in the case of a State Council where 20 members are to be elected, have been declared elected; or
(c) if 12 candidates of less than 10 years' standing in the case of a State Council where members are to be elected, have been declared elected.
(ii) If at the end of any count, there are two or more candidates, WflO have not been on the State Rolls for at least 10 years, getting more than the quota as aforesaid, but the number of candidates that .cah yet be elected from such category under the proviso to Section 3(2)(b) is less than that number, the candidate who has obtained the greater value of votes shall be declared elected in preference to the candidate whose value of votes is less.
(iii) In the case of two or more persons of the category referred to in proviso (ii) above, getting the same value of votes at the end of any count, the Secretary or other Returning Officer conducting the election shall decide by lot which of such persons shall be declared elected.
(iv) The other candidate or candidates not declared elected as aforesaid by reason of the proviso to Section 3(2)(b) of the Act and these rules shall be excluded from the poll as provided in Rule 4(b) of the rules.
EXCLUSION OF CANDIDATES LOWEST ON POLL OR WHO HAVE
BEEN ON ROLLS FOR LESS THAN 10 YEARS
(b) (1) The Secretary or Returning Officer conducting the election shall exclude from the poll