Section 28ZL of the Principal Act is amended as follows:

(a) by omitting the definition of third suspension from subsection (1) and substituting the following definition:

third suspension means the third, or a subsequent, suspension of a councillor if –

(c) the suspension is imposed, during the prescribed period –

(i) by an investigating Panel under section 28ZI(2)(e) ; or

(ii) by the Minister under section 214O ; and

(d) the suspension relates, directly or indirectly, to a code of conduct complaint (whether in relation to a contravention of the same provision or different provisions of a code of conduct, or of the same or a different code of conduct).

(b) by omitting from subsection (2) "the Code of Conduct Panel" and substituting "an investigating Panel" .