Company Secretaries Act : DISABILITIES Indian Bare Acts :

Company Secretaries Act,1980

Act No : 56

Section : DISABILITIES

SECTION 08: DISABILITIES

Notwithstanding anything contained in section 4, a person shall not be entitled to have his name entered in, or borne on, the register if he-

(a) has not attained the age of twenty-one years at the time of his application for the entry of his name in the register; or

(b) is of unsound mind and stands so adjudged by a competent court; or

(c) is an undischarged insolvent; or

(d) being a discharged insolvent, has not obtained from the court a certificate stating that his insolvency was caused by misfortune without any misconduct on his part; or

(e) has been convicted by a competent court, whether within or without India, of an offence involving moral turpitude and punishable with imprisonment or of an offence, not of a technical nature, committed by him in his professional capacity unless in respect of the offence committed he has either been granted a pardon or, on an application made by him in this behalf, the Central Government has, by an order in writing, removed the disability; or

(f) has been removed from membership of the Institute on being found on inquiry to have been guilty of professional or other misconduct:

PROVIDED that a person who has been removed from membership for a specified period shall not be entitled to have his name entered in the register until the expiry of such period.