Title: Local Government (Members Contesting State Elections) AmendmentBill 2017
Author: Office of Parliamentary Counsel
Last saved by: Mrs Baharak Teimorzadeh
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House of Assembly—No 204
As laid on the table and read a first time, 11 May 2017

Local Government (Members Contesting State Elections) Amendment Bill 2017
Contents

Local Government (Members Contesting State Elections) Amendment Bill 2017

Local Government (Members Contesting State Elections) Amendment Bill 2017
Part 1—Preliminary

Local Government (Members Contesting State Elections) Amendment Bill 2017
Preliminary—Part 1

Local Government (Members Contesting State Elections) Amendment Bill 2017
Part 2—Amendment of Local Government Act 1999

Local Government (Members Contesting State Elections) Amendment Bill 2017
Amendment of Local Government Act 1999—Part 2

South Australia
Local Government (Members Contesting State Elections) Amendment Bill 2017
A Bill For
An Act to amend the Local Government Act 1999.

Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1	Short title
2	Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Local Government Act 1999
3	Insertion of section 55A
55A	Leave of absence—council member contesting election

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:
Part 1—Preliminary
1—Short title
This Act may be cited as the Local Government (Members Contesting State Elections) Amendment Act 2017.
2—Amendment provisions
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a specified Act amends the Act so specified.

Part 2—Amendment of Local Government Act 1999
3—Insertion of section 55A
After section 55 insert:
55A—Leave of absence—council member contesting election
	(1)	If a person holding office as a member of a council stands as a candidate for election as a member of the Parliament of the State, the member will be taken to have been granted leave of absence from the office of member of the council from the date on which nominations for the election close until the close of poll on polling day.
	(2)	Subsection (1) does not apply if the nomination of a member of a council as a candidate for election is revoked (as a result of the member's withdrawal of their consent to stand as a candidate).
	(3)	A person who is on leave of absence from the office of member of a council under this section must not carry out any function or duty of that office during the period of leave.

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