Section 15: Qualifications for election as Councillor

15. Qualifications for election as Councillor Subject to section 16, a person shall be qualified to be elected as a Councillor where he is— (a) registered as an elector in any ward of that city or town, or that village, as the case may be; or [Issue 7] L18 – 16 Revised Laws of Mauritius (aa) in the case of a Municipal City Councillor or Municipal Town Councillor, occupying, as owner or tenant, any business premises in a ward of that city or town for not less than 6 months before the election; and (b) able to speak and, unless incapacitated by blindness or other physical cause, to read the English and French languages with a degree of proficiency sufficient to enable him to take an active part in the proceedings of the respective Council. [S. 15 amended by s. 5 of Act 3 of 2015 w.e.f. 9 April 2015.]