79 Qualifications for election and holding office as member of local authority
Local Government Act 1972 (1972 c 70) | Legislation

Part V General Provisions as to Members and Proceedings of Local Authorities

Qualifications and disqualifications

79  Qualifications for election and holding office as member of local authority

(1)     A person shall, unless disqualified by virtue of this Act or any other enactment, be qualified to be elected and to be a member of a local authority[. . .] if he is a [qualifying Commonwealth citizen] or a citizen of the Republic of Ireland [or[, in the case of a local authority in England, a qualifying EU citizen or an EU citizen with retained rights]] [or, in the case of a local authority in Wales, a qualifying foreign citizen] and on the relevant day he has attained the age of [eighteen] years and—

(a)     on that day he is and thereafter he continues to be a local government elector for the area of the

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