(1) A person qualifies to be elected to a District Assembly if that person-

(a) is a citizen of Ghana of not less than 18 years of age;

(b) is a registered voter;

(c) is ordinarily resident in the particular District for which he seeks election; and

(d) has paid all his taxes and rates or made arrangements satisfactory to the appropriate authority for the payment of his taxes and rates.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of this section, a person shall be deemed to be ordinarily resident in a district if within the four years prior to the holding of the election to the District Assembly, he has lived in the district for an aggregate period of not less than twelve months.

(3) A person shall not qualify to be elected to a District Assembly if that person-

(a) is of unsound mind;

(b) has been sentenced to death or imprisonment for an offence involving fraud, dishonesty or violence or has been convicted of an offence relating to or connected with elections under any enactment in force in Ghana at any time;

(c) is a person against whom adverse findings have been made by a competent authority and accepted by Government or in respect of whom an offer of reparation has been made and accepted by the Government;

(d) being a professional person, he is disqualified from practising his profession on grounds of malpractice, fraud or dishonesty by the competent professional body; or

(e) is a person exempted from payment of basic rate under paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section 98 of the Local Government Act (Act).

(4) Notwithstanding paragraph (b) or (c) of subsection (3) of this section, a person shall qualify to be elected to a District Assembly if ten years have elapsed since the end of the sentence, the acceptance of the adverse findings, the offer of reparation or if he has been pardoned.

(5) No person shall at any one time contest election to more than one District Assembly.