Registered electors may be members, unless disqualified

1 Subject to the provisions of this Act, every person who is registered as an elector of an electoral district, but no other person, is qualified to be a candidate and to be elected a member of Parliament, whether for that electoral district, any other electoral district or as a consequence of the inclusion of that person’s name in a party list submitted pursuant to section 127 . 2 Notwithstanding anything in subsection (1), if a person is disqualified for registration as an elector, that person shall not be qualified to be a candidate or to be elected. 3 Regardless of anything in subsection (1), a person is not qualified to be a candidate or to be elected unless he or she is a New Zealand citizen. 1956 No 107 s 25; 1981 No 120 s 9(1) Section 47(3) : substituted , on 1 February 2003 , by section 8(1) of the Electoral Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 1).