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Local Government Act 2009
sec.167Councillors and local government jobs
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### sec.167 Councillors and local government jobs
If a person becomes a councillor while the person is a local government employee, the person is taken to have resigned as a local government employee on the day before the person becomes a councillor.
A local government employee includes an employee of a type of entity prescribed under a regulation.
However, a local government employee does not include a person who—
is employed under a federally funded community development project for Aborigines or Torres Strait Islanders; or
is a member of a class of employees that is prescribed under a regulation.
(sec.167-ssec.1) If a person becomes a councillor while the person is a local government employee, the person is taken to have resigned as a local government employee on the day before the person becomes a councillor.
(sec.167-ssec.2) A local government employee includes an employee of a type of entity prescribed under a regulation.
(sec.167-ssec.3) However, a local government employee does not include a person who— is employed under a federally funded community development project for Aborigines or Torres Strait Islanders; or is a member of a class of employees that is prescribed under a regulation.
- (a) is employed under a federally funded community development project for Aborigines or Torres Strait Islanders; or
- (b) is a member of a class of employees that is prescribed under a regulation.