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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 2.20

2.20 .         Members of parliament disqualified

        (1)         A person is disqualified for membership of a council if the person is a member of a parliament.

        (2)         In this section —

        member of a parliament means —

            (a)         a member of the Legislative Assembly; or

            (b)         a member of the Legislative Council, including a person who has been elected as a member of that House but is not yet entitled to sit or vote in that House because of section 8(2) of the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1899 ; or

            (c)         a member of the House of Representatives; or

            (d)         a senator, including a person who has been elected as a senator but whose term of service as a senator has not yet begun.

        [Section 2.20 amended: No. 2 of 2012 s. 5.]



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