The Valuation and Community Charge Tribunals Regulations 1989

Disqualification from membership

9.—(1) A person shall be disqualified from being appointed or continuing to be a member of a tribunal if he–

(a) has been adjudged bankrupt; or

(b) has made an arrangement with his creditors; or

(c) has, within the five years immediately preceding his appointment, or since his appointment, been convicted in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man of any offence, and ordered to be imprisoned for a period of three months or more without the option of a fine, whether or not that sentence has been suspended; or

(d) is for the time being disqualified for being a member of a local authority in pursuance of section 19 or 20 of the Local Government Finance Act 1982(1); or

(e) is aged 72 years or more.

(2) A disqualification attaching to a person by reason of paragraph (1)(a) shall cease–

(a) unless the bankruptcy order made against that person is previously annulled, on his discharge from bankruptcy; and

(b) if the bankruptcy is so annulled, on the date of the annulment.

(3) A disqualification attaching to a person by reason of paragraph (1)(b) shall cease–

(a) if he pays his debts in full, on the date on which the payment is completed; or

(b) in any other case, on the expiry of five years from the date on which the terms of the deed of composition or arrangement are fulfilled.

(4) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(c), the ordinary date on which the period allowed for making appeal from a conviction expires, or, if such an appeal is made, the date on which it is finally disposed of or abandoned or fails by reason of non-prosecution, shall be deemed to be the date of the conviction.

(1)

1982 c. 32.