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ELECTORAL ACT 2004 (NO. 51 OF 2004) - SECT 239 Disqualification from being elected, &c.

ELECTORAL ACT 2004 (NO. 51 OF 2004) - SECT 239

Disqualification from being elected, &c.

(1)  Any candidate or other person who is convicted of a corrupt practice or who is found by the Supreme Court under Part 8 to have engaged in a corrupt practice is, for a period of 4 years from and including the date of the conviction or finding, incapable –
(a) of being elected to, and sitting as a Member of, either the Assembly or the Council; and
(b) of being enrolled as an elector or of voting at any election under this Act.
(2)  If the return of a person who was a candidate at an election is void by virtue of the operation of section 215 and the Supreme Court makes an order under that section declaring the election to have been void, that person is not qualified to be a candidate at an election that is subsequently held in consequence of the first-mentioned election having been declared void.