Section 16: Disqualifications for election as Councillor

16. Disqualifications for election as Councillor No person shall be qualified to be elected, or nominated, as a Municipal City Councillor, Municipal Town Councillor or Village Councillor or, having been so elected or nominated, shall sit or vote at a meeting of that authority where he— (a) is a member of the National Assembly; (b) is a member of the Rodrigues Regional Assembly; (c) is the holder of, or is acting in, an office of emolument— (i) under the State; (ii) under a local authority; (iii) under a statutory corporation or an organisation wholly funded by the State, other than as the chairperson or member of the governing body of that corporation or organisation wholly funded by the State; (d) is an undischarged bankrupt or has obtained the benefit of a cessio bonorum; (e) has, within the 5 years preceding the day of his nomination or election, or since his nomination or election, been sentenced by a Court to death, penal servitude or imprisonment for any offence or to a fine or imprisonment for any drug-related offence; (f) has been adjudged to be of unsound mind; (g) is a party to, or a partner in a firm or a director or manager of a company which is a party to, any contract with that authority and has not, within 14 days after his nomination as a candidate for election, published in English or French language in the Gazette and in a daily newspaper, a notice setting out the nature of the contract and his interest, or the interest of the firm or company, in the contract; (h) is disqualified from acting as a Councillor by any enactment for having committed an offence connected with elections; (i) is disqualified from election by any enactment by reason of his holding, or acting in, any office, the functions of which involve— (i) any responsibility for, or in connection with, the conduct of an election; or L18 – 17 [Issue 7] Local Government Act (ii) any responsibility for the compilation or revision of a electoral register; or (j) is a Councillor in another local authority. [S. 16 amended by s. 6 of Act 3 of 2015 w.e.f. 9 April 2015.]