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Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007

Section 179: Disqualifications

436.This section clarifies and updates the restrictions in Schedule 4 of the Local Government Act 1974, which disqualify a person in some circumstances from:

  • becoming or being a Local Commissioner;

  • once appointed as a Local Commissioner, from investigating certain matters;

  • from taking up certain posts at the end of their term of office as a Local Commissioner.

437.The restrictions apply, for example, where there would be a risk of a conflict of interest. The amendments take account of the reorganisation of the Commission’s work under new section 23(8A) of the 1974 Act, and reflect the fact that a person may have taken action on behalf of an authority without having been a member of that authority.

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