Version Superseded: 03/05/2007
Point in time view as at 01/09/2006. This version of this provision has been superseded.
Government of Wales Act 1998, Section 14 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 02 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
(1)If a person who is disqualified from being an Assembly member, or from being an Assembly member for a particular Assembly constituency or Assembly electoral region, is returned as an Assembly member or as an Assembly member for that Assembly constituency or Assembly electoral region, his return shall be void and his seat vacant.
(2)If an Assembly member becomes disqualified from being an Assembly member or from being an Assembly member for the Assembly constituency or Assembly electoral region for which he is sitting, he shall cease to be an Assembly member (so that his seat is vacant).
(3)Subsections (1) and (2) have effect subject to any resolution of the Assembly under section 13(3).
(4)Subsection (2) also has effect subject to section 141 of the M1Mental Health Act 1983 (mental illness) and section 427 of the M2Insolvency Act 1986 (bankruptcy etc.); and where, in consequence of either of those sections, the seat of a disqualified Assembly member is not vacant he shall not cease to be an Assembly member until his seat becomes vacant but—
(a)he shall not participate in any proceedings of the Assembly (including proceedings of a committee of the Assembly or of a sub-committee of such a committee), and
(b)any of his other rights and privileges as an Assembly member may be withdrawn by the Assembly.
(5)The validity of anything done by the Assembly is not affected by the disqualification of any person from being an Assembly member or from being an Assembly member for the Assembly constituency or Assembly electoral region for which he purports to sit.
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