Parliament of Canada Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. P-1)

Marginal note:Ineligibility

• 32 (1) Except as specially provided in this Division,

  • (a) no person accepting or holding any office, commission or employment, permanent or temporary, in the service of the Government of Canada, at the nomination of the Crown or at the nomination of any of the officers of the Government of Canada, to which any salary, fee, wages, allowance, emolument or profit of any kind is attached, and

  • (b) no sheriff, registrar of deeds, clerk of the peace or county crown attorney in any of the provinces,

  is eligible to be a member of the House of Commons or shall sit or vote therein.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (2) Nothing in subsection (1) renders ineligible to be a member of the House of Commons, or disqualifies from sitting or voting therein, any person described in paragraph (a) of that subsection, if it is, by the commission or other instrument of appointment of the person, declared or provided that the person shall hold his office, commission or employment without any salary, fee, wages, allowance, emolument or other profit of any kind attached thereto.