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Sentencing Act 1997
96Disqualification of offender holding public office
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### 96 Disqualification of offender holding public office
> An offender who has been sentenced to imprisonment for a term exceeding 2 years and who has not undergone the punishment to which he or she has been sentenced or such other punishment as may have been lawfully substituted for that punishment, or has not received a free pardon, is incapable, while subject to any such sentence, of holding a public office in this State.