(introduced by section 4)
1The following persons are disqualified from being members of the Board—
(a)an Assembly member,
(b)the Counsel General (if not an Assembly member),
(c)a candidate for election as an Assembly member,
(d)a person whose name could, if the seat of a regional Assembly member became vacant, be required to be notified to the Presiding Officer under section 11 of the Act (electoral region vacancies),
(e)a member of the European Parliament, House of Commons, House of Lords, Scottish Parliament or Northern Ireland Assembly,
(f)a member of the staff of the Assembly,
(g)a member of the staff of the Welsh Assembly Government,
(h)a person employed by an Assembly member or by a group of Assembly members for the purpose of assisting that member or the members of that group to perform the functions of an Assembly member,
(i)the Auditor General for Wales,
(j)the National Assembly for Wales Commissioner for Standards,
(k)a member of the Assembly Commission Corporate Governance Committee,
(l)a person holding the appointment of Independent Adviser to the Assembly Commission,
(m)a person who was a member of either of the panels appointed by the Assembly Commission to review the pay and allowances of Assembly members in pursuance of the Assembly Commission's resolutions of 4 July 2007 and 8 May 2008,
(n)a person holding the appointment of Non-Executive Director of the Welsh Assembly Government.
2For the purposes of paragraph 1(c) a person becomes a candidate for election as an Assembly member—
(a)on the day on which that person is declared to be a candidate (whether by the person in question or by others), or
(b)on the day on which that person is nominated as a candidate at an Assembly election,
whichever is the earlier.
3When determining, for the purposes of paragraph 1(d), whether the name of a person could be required to be notified to the Presiding Officer under section 11 of the Act, the requirements of paragraphs (b) and (c) of subsection (3) of that section are to be disregarded.