Who is disqualified to be appointed as the Director of the Company? Disqualified person to act as Director of the Company?

The following persons are disqualified from acting as company directors:

• Undischarged bankrupts (unless they get permission from the High Court or the Official Assignee);
• Persons who are under disqualification orders made by the Court;
• Persons convicted of specified offences or offences involving fraud or dishonesty punishable with imprisonment for three months or more. (The disqualification is for five years from the date of conviction of the relevant offence, or, where the person has been sent to prison, from the date of release);
• Persons convicted of certain offences or subject to the imposition of a civil penalty under the Securities and Futures Act (cap 289);
• Persons who have been a director of not less than three companies which have been struck off the companies register within a period of five years;
• Persons against whom a debarment order has been made by the Registrar of Companies;
• Persons who are disqualified from acting as manager of a limited liability partnership under the Limited Liability Partnership Act (Cap 163A).