Western Australian Current Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 7.4

7.4 .         Disqualified person not to be auditor

        (1)         A person may not be appointed as a local government’s auditor if that person is a disqualified person.

        (2)         In this section —

        disqualified person means a person who —

            (a)         is a councillor or an employee of the local government; or

            (b)         is a person who is in debt for more than the prescribed amount to the local government for a period of more than 35 days after —

                  (i)         in the case of that part of the debt which is for a rate or service charge under Part 6, the date the rate notice was issued; or

                  (ii)         in the case of that part of the debt which is not for a rate or service charge, the date an account was rendered to the person by the local government;

                or

            (c)         is an employee of, or a member of the governing body of, an entity of a kind prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph; or

            (d)         is a member of a class of persons prescribed for the purposes of this subsection.