Gambling Regulation Act 2024

Ineligibility to become and disqualification to act as member of relevant office or as adjudication officer

59. (1) A person shall not be eligible for appointment as a member of a relevant office, as an adjudication officer or as the chief executive during any period that he or she is—

(a) an undischarged bankrupt, or

(b) subject to a composition or arrangement with his or her creditors.

(2) A person shall cease to hold office as a member of a relevant office, as an adjudication officer or as the chief executive upon—

(a) being adjudicated bankrupt, or

(b) making an arrangement or composition with his or her creditors.

(3) A person shall not be eligible for appointment, and shall cease to hold office, as a member of a relevant office, as an adjudication officer or as the chief executive if he or she—

(a) is convicted on indictment of an offence,

(b) is convicted of an offence involving fraud or dishonesty,

(c) has a declaration under section 819 of the Act of 2014 made against him or her or is deemed to be subject to such a declaration by virtue of Chapter 5 of Part 14 of that Act,

(d) is subject, or is deemed to be subject, to a disqualification order, within the meaning of Chapter 4 of Part 14 of the Act of 2014, whether by virtue of that Chapter or any other provisions of that Act, or

(e) enters into employment with—

(i) a licensee or an organisation which represents licensees in the State, or

(ii) a person equivalent to a licensee, or an organisation equivalent to an organisation referred to in subparagraph (i), outside the State.