§ Mr. Lubbockasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs if he will move to amend Section 59(1)(a) of the Local Government Act 1933, so as to clarify the position of teachers in excepted districts.
§ Sir K. JosephI do not consider that Section 59(1) requires amendment. The principle is well established and generally accepted that no person holding paid office under a local authority should become an elected member of that authority. The application of this principle in the case of individual teachers in excepted districts depends, I am advised, on the conditions of their particular appointments.
§ Mr. Lubbockasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs if he will list the schemes for divisional administration under the Education Act 1944, under which teachers are disqualified for election as members of the corresponding district councils.
§ Sir K. JosephI am advised that in the excepted districts listed below, teachers in county and voluntary primary schools are disqualified for membership of the district council con-92W cerned by the terms of the scheme for divisional administration. I am further advised that whether or not teachers in county and voluntary secondary schools are similarly disqualified depends in any particular case on the Articles of Government of the individual school.
Acton, Parking, Basildon, Beckenham, Bedford, Bexley, Brentford and Chiswick, Bromley, Cambridge, Cheltenham, Chesterfield, Colchester, Crosby, Dagenham, Ealing, Edmonton, Enfield, Finchley, Gillingham, Gosport, Harrow, Hayes and Harlington, Hendon, Heston and Isleworth, Hornsey, Huyton with Roby, Ilford, Hove, Keighley, Leyton, Lowestoft, Luton, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Middleton, Nuneaton, Oldbury, Poole, Rhondda, Romford, Scunthorpe, Solihull, Southgate, Stretford, Stockton-on-Tees, Swindon, Tottenham, Wallsend, Walthamstow, Wembley, Widnes, Willesden, Worthing.