(1) A councillor's office becomes vacant if the councillor--
(a) is dismissed; or
(b) ceases to be qualified to be a councillor under division 1; or
(c) is found, on a judicial review, to be ineligible to continue to be a councillor; or
(d) does not comply with section 169; or
(e) is absent, without the local government's leave, from 2 or more consecutive ordinary meetings of the local government over at least 2 months; or
(f) resigns as a councillor by signed notice of resignation given to the chief executive officer; or
(g) dies; or
(h) becomes a local government employee.
(2) A local government employee does not include--
(a) a person employed under a federally funded community development project for Aborigines or Torres Strait Islanders; or
(b) a person prescribed under a regulation.