Regulation 14 Disqualification from membership of the Valuation TribunalI1

England and Wales

(1)

A person will be disqualified from being appointed or continuing to be a member of the Valuation Tribunal if—

(a)

that person has been F1made bankrupt; or

(b)

that person has made an arrangement with creditors; or

(c)

that person has, within the five years immediately preceding that person’s appointment, or since that person’s 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)

that person is for the time being disqualified from being a member of a local authority; or

(e)

that person or that person’s spouse or civil partner is or becomes an employee of the Valuation Tribunal.

(2)

A disqualification attaching to a person by reason of paragraph (1)(a) will cease—

(a)

unless the bankruptcy order made against that person is previously annulled, on that person’s discharge from bankruptcy; or

(b)

if the bankruptcy order is so annulled, on the date of the annulment.

(3)

A disqualification attaching to a person by reason of paragraph (1)(b) will cease—

(a)

if that person pays that person’s 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 an 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, will be deemed to be the date of the conviction.

(5)

For the purposes of this regulation, “member of the Valuation Tribunal” means a member—

(a)

of the Valuation Tribunal appointed under regulation 9;

(b)

of the Governing Council appointed under regulation 7; or

(c)

of an old Tribunal appointed to the Valuation Tribunal under regulation 21.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Word in reg. 14(1)(a) substituted (6.4.2016) by The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (Consequential Amendments) (Bankruptcy) and the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/481), reg. 1, Sch. 2 para. 15(a)

Commencement

I1: Reg. 14 in force at 1.4.2010, see reg. 1(2)