34. Subject to section 35, a person shall be qualified to be elected as a member of the National Assembly if, and shall not be qualified unless, at the date of his nomination for election--

(a) he is a citizen of Kenya who has attained the age of twenty-one years; and

(b) he is registered in some constituency as a voter in elections to the National Assembly; and

(c) he is able to speak and, unless incapacitated by blindness or other physical cause, to read the Swahili and English languages well enough to take an active part in the proceedings of the National Assembly; and

(d) he is nominated by a political party in the manner prescribed by or under an Act of Parliament.