Regulation 4 Disqualification for appointmentF1

has within five years of the day the appointment would otherwise have taken effect been convicted whether in the United Kingdom or elsewhere of any offence and has been given a sentence of imprisonment (whether suspended or not) for a period of not less than three months without the option of a fine;

has been dismissed, other than by reason of redundancy, from any paid employment with the Department, a health and social care body F2, a health service body or a former health service body ;

is the subject of a bankruptcy restrictions order F3or he is the subject of a debt relief restrictions order ;

is subject to a disqualification under the Company Directors Disqualification (Northern Ireland) Order 2002^f1, the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986^f2 or to an order made under section 429(2)(b) of the Insolvency Act 1986^f3 (failure to pay under county court administration order);

has been—

is a Chair, chairman, member or non-executive director of a health and social care body or a health service body F4... ;

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holds any office with the Department, a health and social care body or a health service body;

is a person who has been removed from office as the Chair, chairman, member or non-executive director of a health and social care body F6 , a health service body F7...or a former health service body F8(other than a clinical commissioning group) ;

is a person who has been removed from office as the chair or a member of the governing body of a clinical commissioning group;

is a member of another Local Commissioning Group.

the date of conviction shall be deemed to be the date on which the ordinary period allowed for making an appeal or application with respect to the conviction expires or, if such an appeal or application is made, the date on which the appeal or application is finally disposed of or abandoned or fails by reason of its not being prosecuted; and

there shall be disregarded—

a person shall not be treated as having been in paid employment by reason only of his being F10 (i) a Chair, chairman, member or non-executive director of a health and social care body F11, a health service body F12...or a former health service body F13(other than a clinical commissioning group) , or ; and

“dismissed” excludes dismissal which was established to have been unfair in industrial tribunal proceedings.