Canada Elections Act

Marginal note:Ineligible candidates

65 The following persons are not eligible to be a candidate:

• (a) a person who is not qualified as an elector on the date on which his or her nomination paper is filed;

• (b) a person who is disentitled under paragraph 502(3)(a) while they are so disentitled;

• (c) a member of the legislative assembly of a province;

• (d) a sheriff, clerk of the peace or county Crown Attorney in any of the provinces;

• (e) a person who is not entitled under section 4 to vote;

• (f) a judge appointed by the Governor in Council, other than a citizenship judge appointed under the Citizenship Act;

• (g) a person who is imprisoned in a correctional institution;

• (h) an election officer; and

• (i) a person who was a candidate in a previous election and for whom a return, report, document or declaration has not been provided under subsection 477.59(1), if the time and any extension for providing it have expired.