Vacation of office of member of county assembly

Official text

(1) The office of a member of a county assembly becomes vacant—
  (a) if the member dies;
  (b) if the member is absent from eight sittings of the assembly without permission, in writing, of the speaker of the assembly, and is unable to offer satisfactory explanation for the absence;
  (c) if the member is removed from office under this Constitution or legislation enacted under Article 80;
  (d) if the member resigns in writing addressed to the speaker of the assembly;
  (e) if, having been elected to the assembly—
    (i) as a member of a political party, the member resigns from the party, or is deemed to have resigned from the party as determined in accordance with the legislation contemplated in clause (2); or
    (ii) as an independent candidate, the member joins a political party;
  (f) at the end of the term of the assembly; or
  (g) if the member becomes disqualified for election on grounds specified in Article 193(2).
(2) Parliament shall enact legislation providing for the circumstances under which a member of a political party shall be deemed, for the purposes of clause (1)(e), to have resigned from the party.