South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts17—Entitlement to stand for election
(1) Subject to this
Act and the Local Government Act 1999 , a person is eligible to be a
candidate for election as a member of a council if—
(a) the
person is—
(i)
an Australian citizen; or
(ii)
a prescribed person; and
(b)
—
(i)
the person is an elector for the area; or
(ii)
the person is the nominee of a body corporate which has
its name on the voters roll for the area; or
(iii)
the person is the nominee of a group which has its name
on the voters roll for the area; or
(iv)
the person's name has been omitted in error from the
voters roll for the area, or the person is the nominee of a body corporate or
group which has had its name omitted in error from the voters roll for the
area (and would be eligible for nomination under subparagraph (ii) or
(iii) (as the case may be) were the name on the roll).
(2)
Subsection (1)(b) operates subject to the following qualifications:
(a) a
nominee of a body corporate must be an officer of the body corporate; and
(b) a
nominee of a group must be a member of the group, or an officer of a body
corporate that is a member of the group; and
(c) a
body corporate or group cannot nominate more than one person for a particular
election; and
(d) a
body corporate or group cannot nominate a person who has not attained the age
of majority.
(3) A person is not
eligible to be a candidate for election as a member of a council if the
person—
(a) is a
member of an Australian Parliament; or
(b) is
an undischarged bankrupt or is receiving the benefit of a law for the relief
of insolvent debtors; or
(c) has
been sentenced to imprisonment and is, or could on the happening of some
contingency become, liable to serve the sentence or the remainder of the
sentence; or
(d) is
an employee of the council; or
(e) is
disqualified from election by court order under the Local Government
Act 1999 .
(4) A person is not
eligible to be a candidate for election as a member of a council if the
person—
(a) in
the case of a supplementary election—is a member of another council; or
(b) in
the case of any election—is a candidate for election as a member of
another council.
(5) In this
section—
"prescribed person" means a person who has held office as a member of a
council at any time between 5 May 1997 and the commencement of this section.