# The House of Commons Disqualification Order 1997, Paragraph 5


The following entries shall be omitted:—
Chairman, or Director General and Deputy Chairman, of the Agricultural and Food Research Council.
Chairman or member of a panel of deputy-chairmen of an Agricultural Land Tribunal.
Chairman of the Business & Technology Council.
Paid Chairman of the Central Transport Consultative Committee for Great Britain established under section 56 of the Transport Act 1962.
Chairman of the Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education.
Chairman of the Land Authority for Wales.
Chairman of the Letchworth Garden City Corporation.
Chairman of the Northern Ireland Rural Development Council.
Any Chairman of the Plant Varieties and Seeds Tribunal.
Chairman of the Science and Engineering Research Council.
Chairman of the Scottish Legal Aid Board.
Chairman or Vice-Chairman of the Sports Council.
Chairman of the Training and Employment Agency Advisory Board in Northern Ireland.
Delegate for Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom to the Central Rhine Commission.
Director of British Telecommunications p.l.c. nominated or appointed by a Minister of the Crown or government department.
Director of Northern Ireland Airports Limited.
Director of the successor company (within the meaning of the British Steel Act 1988) being a director nominated or appointed by a Minister of the Crown or by a person acting on behalf of the Crown.
Director of the successor company (within the meaning of the British Technology Group Act 1991) being a director nominated or appointed by a Minister of the Crown or by a person acting on behalf of the Crown.
Director of a successor company (within the meaning of Part II of the Electricity Act 1989), being a director nominated or appointed by a Minister of the Crown or by a person acting on behalf of the Crown.
Any member of the Insolvency Practitioners Tribunal in receipt of remuneration.
Member of a Wages Council appointed under paragraph 1(b) of Schedule 2 to the Wages (Northern Ireland) Order 1988.
President, or member of a panel of chairmen, of industrial tribunals established under section 12 of the Industrial Training Act 1964.
Secretary of the Medical Research Council.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/861/schedule/paragraph/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/house-of-commons-disqualification-order-1997/schedule/paragraph-5
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