New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORATES AND ELECTIONS ACT 1912 - SECT 11

11 Disqualifications for appointment as commissioner

(1) A person shall not be appointed a commissioner under this Act if he or she is a person:

(a) who is a bankrupt, is applying to take the benefit of any law for the relief of bankrupt or insolvent debtors, whose debts are subject to a composition with his or her creditors, or whose remuneration would, on his or her appointment, be subject to an assignment for their benefit,

(b) who has been convicted in New South Wales of a crime or an offence which is punishable by imprisonment for 12 months or more, or has been convicted elsewhere than in New South Wales of a crime or an offence which, if committed in New South Wales, would have been a crime or an offence so punishable, or

(c) who is a mentally incapacitated person.

(2) A commissioner shall be deemed to have vacated office if the commissioner:

(a) becomes bankrupt, applies to take the benefit of any law for the relief of bankrupt or insolvent debtors, compounds with his or her creditors or makes an assignment of his or her remuneration for their benefit,

(b) is convicted in New South Wales of a crime or an offence which is punishable by imprisonment for 12 months or more, or is convicted elsewhere than in New South Wales of a crime or an offence which, if committed in New South Wales, would be a crime or an offence so punishable, or is convicted of a crime or an offence, whether in New South Wales or elsewhere, and is sentenced to imprisonment for that crime or offence, or

(c) becomes a mentally incapacitated person.