MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 March 1935, Page 13

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

QUALIFICATION QUESTIONS

For the benefit of “Enquirer,” information was sought, to-day, as to the qualifications required to enable a person to vote at the municipal elections, and to stand as a candidate for election to the Borough Council. The qualifications enabling a person to become an elector include the following: Freehold, rating, residential, and occupational. In the case of husband and wife, any qualification possessed by either of them is ueemed to be possessed by each; of them. Every elector is qualified to be elected as a member of the Borough Council, subject to the following exceptions:—

(a) Any person who is not an elector.

(b) Any person disqualified from holding the office of Mayor or Councillor, under any Act. (c) An alien. (d) A person of unsound mind. (’e) A bankrupt who has not obtained his order of Recharge. (f) A person convicted of any offence punishable by imprisonment, unless he has received a free pardon, or has served his sentence or otherwise suffered the penalty imposed on him.

(g) Any prson holding any office or place of profit, other than that of Mayor or Deputy-Mayor, under or in the gift of the Council.

(h) Any person who is concerned or interested (otherwise than as a member of an incorporated company, in which there are more than twenty members, and of which he is not the general manager) in any contract made by the Council, if the payment made or to be made by or on behalf of the Council, in respect of any such contract, exceeds £5 in the case of a single contract, or £lO altogether in any financial year, in the case of two or more contracts; provided that an interest in any lease granted or agreed to be granted by the Council, or any loan raised by the Council, whether on security or otherwise, shall not constitute a disqualification.