The Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health (Membership and Procedure) Regulations 2002

Cessation of disqualification

6.—(1) Where a person is disqualified under regulation 5(1)(b) by reason of having been adjudged bankrupt or having had a sequestration of his estate awarded—

(a)if the bankruptcy is annulled on the ground that he ought not to have been adjudged bankrupt or on the ground that his debts have been paid in full, the disqualification shall cease on the day of the annulment;

(b)if he is discharged, the disqualification shall cease on the day of his discharge.

(2) Where a person is disqualified under regulation 5(1)(b) by reason of his having made a composition or arrangement with, or granted a trust deed for, his creditors—

(a)if he pays his debts in full, the disqualification shall cease on the day on which such payment is completed; and

(b)in any other case, it shall cease on the fifth anniversary of the day on which the terms of the deed of composition or arrangement, or, as the case may be, of the trust deed, are fulfilled.

(3) Subject to paragraph (4), where a person is disqualified under regulation 5(1)(c) he may, after the second anniversary of the day on which he was dismissed, apply in writing to the Secretary of State to remove the disqualification, and the Secretary of State may direct that the disqualification shall cease.

(4) Where the Secretary of State refuses an application to remove a disqualification, no further application may be made by that person until the second anniversary of the day of the refusal and this paragraph shall apply to any subsequent application.

(5) Where a person is disqualified under regulation 5(1)(d), the disqualification shall cease on the second anniversary of the termination of his tenure of office, or such longer period as may be specified on the termination, but the Secretary of State may, on application being made to him by that person, reduce the period of disqualification.