KATHMANDU: Rule 244 (3) of the House of Representatives Regulation stipulates that if a notification is received about the arrest of any lawmaker in any criminal offence  as per the proviso of Article 103 (6) of the constitution or if any member, accused of a crime  carrying a jail sentence of three years or more as per prevailing laws, is taken into custody by police or if any member accused of crime involving moral turpitude is sent to judicial custody for trial, then such a member will be barred from working as a member of Parliament and will not receive any pay or perk during the period of his/her custody.

Lawmaker Laxman Lal Karna, who is also a senior advocate, said FSF-N lawmaker Hari Rauniyar would be barred from working as a lawmaker only if he was arrested or sent to judicial custody but if he got bail he would not be barred from working as a lawmaker.

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