law: Cost and Works Accountants Act, 1959 
  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 this 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 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
  (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.