# The Valuation Tribunals (Wales) Regulations 2005, Regulation 16: Disqualification from membership of valuation Tribunals


(1) A person will be disqualified from being appointed or continuing to be a member of a Valuation Tribunal if—
(a) that person has been adjudged 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 Service for Wales.
(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 a Valuation Tribunal” (“aelod o Dribiwnlys Prisio”) means a member—
(a) of a Valuation Tribunal appointed under regulation 12; or
(b) of the Governing Council of the Valuation Tribunal Service for Wales appointed under regulation 8.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2005/3364/regulation/16 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/valuation-tribunals-wales-regulations-2005/regulation-16
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