Naskapi and the Cree-Naskapi Commission Act

Marginal note:Eligibility to be elected council member

68 Any elector of a band is eligible to be elected to the office of council member of that band unless he

• (a) has been convicted of contravening a regulation made under paragraph 67(1)(b) within the two year period preceding the date fixed for the holding of the election for that office or, where the most recent election for that office took place before that two year period, in respect of the most recent election for that office;

• (b) has been appointed as a Returning Officer or as a Deputy or Assistant Returning Officer in respect of the election for that office;

• (c) is the band secretary or band treasurer referred to in section 41;

• (d) is a judge to which the Judges Act applies or is a Crown prosecutor;

• (e) is, on the day fixed for the holding of the election for that office, undergoing a term of imprisonment as a result of having been convicted of an indictable offence; or

• (f) in the case of a Naskapi beneficiary, resides on the Matimekosh Reserve.