Sch 4A para 11F Eligibility to become relevant Minister or deputy Minister
(1) The holding of office as First Minister or deputy First Minister shall not prevent a person being elected to hold— (a) the relevant Ministerial office; or (b) the deputy Ministerial office. (2) Where— (a) the Assembly has resolved under section 30(2) that a political party does not enjoy its confidence; and (b) the party's period of exclusion under that provision has not come to an end, no member of that party may be nominated under paragraph 11E(4)(b). (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (4) In this paragraph, a reference to a period of exclusion ... is, in the case of a period of exclusion ... which has been extended, a reference to that period as extended.