law: Chartered Accountants Act, 1949 
  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- 
  (i) 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
  (ii) is of unsound mind and stands so adjudged by a competent
  
  court; or
  (iii) is an undischarged insolvent; or
  (iv) 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
  (v) has been convicted by a competent court whether within or
  
  without India, of an offence involving moral turpitude and punishable with
  
  transportation or imprisonment or of an offence, not of 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
  (vi) 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.