LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 2009 - SECT 154 Disqualification of prisoners

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 2009 - SECT 154

154 Disqualification of prisoners

(1) A person can not be a councillor while the person is a prisoner.

(2) A
"prisoner" is a person who—

(a) is serving a period of imprisonment; or

(b) is liable to serve a period of imprisonment, even though the person has been released from imprisonment (on parole or leave of absence, for example); or

(c) would be serving a term of imprisonment had the term of imprisonment not been suspended under the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992 , section 144 .

(3) A person automatically stops being a councillor when the person becomes a prisoner.