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Local Authorities (Imposition Of Civic Disabilities) (No. 1) Law (No. 1 Law ) - Sect 2

Relevant persons disqualified from voting or being elected

2.
(1) Every relevant person shall, for a period of seven years from the date of commencement of this Law, be disqualified from being registered as a voter or from voting at any election of members of any local authority or from being nominated as a candidate at any election of a member or members of any local authority or from being elected or from sitting or voting as a member of any local authority.
(2) In the preparation and certification under the Local Authorities Elections Ordinance of an electoral list for any electoral area of any local authority the name of every relevant person shall be omitted notwithstanding that the name of such person appears in the operative parliamentary register or part thereof as correspond to the electoral area of such local authority.
(3) The nomination of any such person as a candidate at any such election or the inclusion of the name of any such person in any list or lists of candidates shall be deemed, for all purposes, to be null and void.


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