law: Company Secretaries Act, 1980
  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 -
  (a) 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
  (b) is of unsound mind and stands so adjudged
  
  by a competent court; or
  (c) is an undischarged 
  
  insolvent; or
  (d) 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
  (e) 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
  (f) 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.