Company Secretaries Act, 1980
8. 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.