1(1)A person snail be disqualified for being appointed as, or for being, a Local Commissioner if—
(a)he is disqualified for being elected, or being, a member of any of the authorities mentioned in section 25(1) of this Act; or
(b)he is a member of any of those authorities or is a member (by co-option) of a committee of any of those authorities.
(2)A Local Commissioner shall not at any time conduct a case arising in an area if it is wholly or partly within an area for which one of those authorities is responsible and, within the five years ending at that time, the Local Commissioner has been a member of that authority, or a member (by co-option) of a committee of that authority.
(3)The acts and proceedings of a person appointed as a Local Commissioner and acting in that office shall, notwithstanding his disqualification under this paragraph, be as valid and effectual as if he had been qualified.