Western Australian Consolidated Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 2.20

2.20 .         Members of parliament disqualified for election

        (1)         A person is disqualified from being elected as a member of a council if the person is a member of a parliament.

        (2)         In this section — 

        member of a parliament means — 

            (a)         a member of the Legislative Assembly;

            (b)         a member of the Legislative Council, including a person who has been elected as a member of that House but is not yet entitled to sit or vote in that House because of section 8(2) of the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1899 ;

            (c)         a member of the House of Representatives; or

            (d)         a senator, including a person who has been elected as a senator but whose term of service as a senator has not yet begun.