LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 4.48
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 4.48
4.48 . Candidate, eligibility of
(1) If the election is
to fill an office or offices of councillor, a person can only be a candidate
if the person was an elector of the district who, as at the close of
enrolments, was qualified under section 2.19 to be elected as a member of the
council and, at the time of nomination —
(a) the
person is qualified under section 2.19 to be elected as a member of the
council; and
(b) the
person is not a candidate in another election to fill an office or offices of
councillor on the council; and
(c) the
person is not the holder of an office of member of a council other than an
office the term of which will end on, or before, election day; and
(d) the
person has completed the course of induction prescribed for the purposes of
this subsection.
(2) If the election is
to fill the office of elector mayor or president, a person can only be a
candidate if —
(a) the
person was an elector of the district who, as at the close of enrolments and
at the time of nomination, was qualified under section 2.19 to be elected as a
member of the council; and
(b) at
the time of nomination, the person has completed the course of induction
prescribed for the purposes of this subsection.
[Section 4.48 amended: No. 49 of 2004 s. 38(1) and
(2); No. 17 of 2009 s. 18; No. 16 of 2019 s. 15.]