§ COLONEL LLOYD ANSTRUTHER (Suffolk, Woodbridge)asked the President of the Local Government Board, whether, under "The Local Government (England and Wales) Act, 1888," every member of a banking firm with whom an ordinary current account is kept either by a County Council or by an authority under it, was thereby disqualified from being a County Councillor?
§ *MR. RITCHIEI have no authority to determine questions relative to the disqualification of County Councillors; but I may say that the Muncipal 1569 Corporations Act provides that a person shall be disqualified from being elected, and for being a Town Councillor, if and while he "has, directly or indirectly, by himself or his partner, any share or interest in any contract or employment with, by, or on behalf of the Council"; and that this provision has been made applicable to County Councillors. I presume that some particular case has given rise to the question of my hon. Friend; but whether such case would come within the enactment to which I have referred is a matter upon which I must not be understood as expressing any opinion.