Ineligibility and disqualification of ordinary members of Commission 12. (1) A person shall not be eligible to be recommended for appointment to, or appointed as a member of, the Commission or a committee if he or she: (a) is a member of either House of the Oireachtas; (b) is entitled under the rules of procedure of the European Parliament to sit in that Parliament; (c) is a member of a local authority; (d) does not possess a tax clearance certificate issued to him or her under section 1095 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 . (2) A person shall be disqualified from holding and shall cease to hold office as an ordinary member of the Commission or a committee if he or she: (a) is convicted on indictment of an offence; (b) is convicted of an offence involving fraud or dishonesty; (c) has a declaration under section 819 of the Act of 2014 made against him or her or is deemed to be subject to such a declaration by virtue of Chapter 5 of Part 14 of that Act; (d) is subject or is deemed to be subject to a disqualification order, within the meaning of Chapter 4 of Part 14 of the Act of 2014, whether by virtue of that Chapter or any other provision of that Act. (3) Where a member of the Commission or a committee is— (a) nominated as a member of Seanad Éireann, (b) elected as a member of either House of the Oireachtas or to be a member of the European Parliament, (c) regarded pursuant to Part XIII of the Second Schedule to the Act of 1997 as having been elected to be a member of the European Parliament, or (d) elected or co-opted as a member of a local authority, he or she shall thereupon cease to be a member of the Commission or committee, as the case may be.
§ Electoral Reform Act 2022 s. 12Ineligibility and disqualification of ordinary members of Commission
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