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CHINA'S PERMANENT CONSTITUTION
Art. 62.-The House of Representatives may pass a vote of No Confidence in Cabinet Ministers.
Art. 63. The Senate shall try an impeached President, Vice-President or Cabinet Minister.
In a trial on impeachment, a verdict of guilty shall not be passed without the approval of more than two-thirds of the members present.
When a verdict of guilty is pronounced on the President or Vice-President, he shall be deprived of his post, but the infliction of punishment shall be determined by the Supreme Court.
When a verdict of guilty is pronounced on a Cabinet Minister, he shall be deprived of his office and may be deprived of his public rights. Should the above be an insufficient penalty for his offence, he shall be tried by a judicial Court.
Art. 64.-Each House shall have the right to demand, by a dispatch to the Government, the investigation of the case of officials charged with violating the law or failing to perform their duty.
Art. 65. Each House shall have the right to offer suggestions to the Government.
Art. 66.-Each House shall have the right to receive and consider the petitions of citizens.
Art. 67.-Members of either House may interpellate Members of the Cabinet and demand their attendance in the House to reply thereto.
Art. 68. Members of Parliament shall not, outside Parliament, be respon- sible for opinions expressed and votes cast in Parliament.
Art. 69.-Members of Parliament shall not be arrested or taken into custody without the permission of their respective Houses except when apprehended in flagrante delicto.
When members of either House have been arrested in flagrante delicto, the Government shall at once report the matter to the House concerned; but each House shall have the right to demand, on motion carried, the temporary suspension of judicial proceedings and the delivery of an arrested member to the custody of the House concerned.
Art. 70.-The annual allowances and other expenses of members of Parliament shall be fixed by law.
CHAPTER VII.—THE PRESIDENT
Art. 71.--The administrative power of the Republic of China shall be exercised, by the President with the assistance of the Cabinet Ministers.
Art. 72.-Any citizen of the Republic of China in full enjoyment of public rights, of the age forty or more, and resident in the country for more than ten years shall be eligible for election as President.
Art. 73.-The President shall be elected by a Presidential Electoral College formed by the whole membership of the two Houses of Parliament.
For this election, an attendance of at least two-thirds of the number of electors shall be requisite and the ballot shall be secret. The candidate obtaining three- fourths of the total votes shall be elected; but should no definite result be obtained after the second ballot, the two candidates obtaining the most votes in the second ballot shall be voted for, when the candidate receiving the majority of the votes shall be elected.
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