ELECTORAL ACT (as amended at 24th January 2008) (c) is enrolled on the voters roll for the council area concerned; and (d) is not disqualified in terms of subsection (2); shall be qualified to be elected as a councillor. (2) A person shall be disqualified from being nominated as a candidate for or from election as a councillor if— (a) he or she is a member of another local authority, other than a local authority which— (i) will be abolished on or before the date he or she would assume office if elected; or (ii) forms part of a system of local government for which provision has been made in terms of section 5 of the Urban Councils Act [Chapter 29:15]; or (b) he or she is a member of Parliament; or (c) in terms of the law in force in any country, he or she has— (i) been adjudged or otherwise declared insolvent or bankrupt and has not been rehabilitated or discharged; or (ii) made an assignment or arrangement or composition with his or her creditors which has not been rescinded or set aside; or (d) during the five years immediately preceding the date of his or her proposed nomination as a candidate, he or she has been convicted of contravening section 48 of the Rural District Councils Act [Chapter 29:13], section 107, 108 or 109 of the Urban Councils Act [Chapter 29:15] or an equivalent provision of any Act repealed by the latter Act; or (e) he or she has been convicted of an offence involving dishonesty; or (f) subject to subsection (3), he or she holds an office of profit under or in the gift of a local authority, not being a local authority that will be abolished on or before the date he or she would assume office if elected; or (g) subject to subsections (4) and (5), he or she holds an office of profit under the State; or (h) on— (i) the nomination day in question; or (ii) the day of the election in question; as the case may be, he or she is in default with the payment of any levy, rate, charge or tax due and payable to the council concerned, and has been in such default for more than one hundred and twenty days; or (i) he or she is suspended in terms of section 157 of the Rural District Councils Act [Chapter 29:13] or section 114 of the Urban Councils Act [Chapter 29:15], as the case may be, from exercising all his or her functions as a councillor or, having been - 76 -

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