Western Australian Consolidated Acts

CONSTITUTION ACTS AMENDMENT ACT 1899 - SECT 32

32 .         Disqualification by reason of bankruptcy or convictions

        (1)         A person is disqualified for membership of the Legislature if he — 

            (a)         be an undischarged bankrupt, or a debtor against whose estate there is a subsisting receiving order in bankruptcy; or

            (b)         has been convicted on indictment of an offence for which the indictable penalty was or included —

                  (i)         imprisonment for life; or

                  (ii)         imprisonment for more than 5 years.

        (2)         In subsection (1)(b) —

        offence means an offence against a law of this State, the Commonwealth, another State or a Territory; and

        indictable penalty means the penalty that such a law specified for the offence in the event of a person being convicted of it on indictment.

        [Section 32 (formerly section 31) amended by No. 111 of 1975 s. 2; renumbered as 32 and amended by No. 78 of 1984 s. 9; No. 70 of 2004 s. 81(1)-(3).]