Eligibility at local government elections

(1) Eligible to the county council and bound to accept election is any person who is entitled to vote at the election and who is listed in the Population Registry as resident in one of the municipal authority areas of the county on Election Day, and who is not subject to any legal incapacity or exempt.

(2) Eligible to the municipal council and bound to accept election is any person who is entitled to vote at the election and who is listed in the Population Registry as resident in the municipal authority area on Election Day, and who is not disqualified or exempt.

(3) Disqualified from election to the county council or the municipal council are:

a) the county governor and the assistant county governor and

b) any person who in the municipal or county authority in question is

- chief executive or the latter’s deputy,

- head of a branch of the administration; this does not however apply to managers of isolated activities,

- secretary to the municipal council or county council,

- responsible for the accounts, or

- the person who conducts audits for a municipal or county authority.

(4) In county authorities or municipal authorities that have a parliamentary form of government, any persons employed in the secretariat of the executive board who have had authority delegated to them by the board are not eligible.

(5) Whether a person shall be disqualified from election depends on whether the person in question holds the post at the time at which the county council or the municipal council commences its functions.

Amended by Acts No. 4 of 10 January 2003 (commencement 1 February 2003 pursuant to Decree No. 3 of 10 January 2003),No. 113 of 12 December 2003 (commencement 1 July 2004 pursuant to Decree No. 1505 of 12 December 2003), No. 71 of 19 June 2015.