10Qualification of teachers for membership of local authorities and their committees
(1)For the proviso to section ninety-four of the [23 & 2 Geo. 5. c. 51.] Local Government Act, 1933, there shall be substituted the following proviso :—
“Provided that a person shall not, by reason of his being a teacher in, or being otherwise employed in, any school, college or other educational institution maintained or assisted by a. local education authority, be disqualified for being a member of any committee or sub-committee of any local authority—
(a)appointed for the purposes of the enactments relating to education;
(b)appointed for the care of the mentally defective ; or
(c)appointed under this Act or under section four of the [56 & 57 Vict. c. 11.] Public Libraries (Amendment) Act, 1893, for purposes connected with the execution of the Public Libraries Acts, 1892 to 1919 ;
or for being a representative of a local authority on a joint committee appointed by agreement between the authority and other local authorities for any such purpose as aforesaid.”
(2)Subsection (2) of section fifty-nine of the Local Government Act, 1933, shall not operate so as to disqualify any person for being elected or being a member of the council of a county district by reason of his being a teacher in, or being otherwise employed in, any school, college or other educational institution maintained or assisted by a local education authority.
(3)In Part I of the Eighth Schedule to the principal Act, the provision amending section ninety-four of the Local Government Act, 1933, is hereby repealed.
(4)This section shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-five.