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AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY (SELF-GOVERNMENT) ACT 1988 - SECT 14

Disqualification of member

  (1)   A member vacates office if the member:

  (a)   at any time after the beginning of the first meeting of the Assembly after a general election, is not qualified to take a seat as a member;

  (b)   is absent without permission of the Assembly from:

  (i)   such number of consecutive meetings as is specified by enactment for the purposes of this subparagraph; or

  (ii)   if no such enactment is in force--4 consecutive meetings of the Assembly; or

  (c)   takes or agrees to take, directly or indirectly, any remuneration, allowance, honorarium or reward for services rendered in the Assembly, otherwise than under section   73.

  (2)   A person who has vacated an office of member may be re - elected.

  (3)   Paragraph   (1)(c) does not apply to a superannuation scheme:

  (a)   that is established by or under an enactment; and

  (b)   under which any or all of the following benefits are provided:

  (i)   benefits for a person upon ceasing to hold an office of member;

  (ii)   benefits for a person who is or was a member in the event of the permanent or temporary disability of the person;

  (iii)   benefits for dependants of a person who is or was a member in the event of the death of the person.

  (4)   In subsection   (3):

"dependant" has the same meaning as in the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993 .


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