This is the Premier League's fit and proper person test:
DISQUALIFYING EVENTS:
A person shall be disqualified from acting as a director and no club shall be
permitted to have any person acting as a director of that club if:
Either directly or indirectly he is involved in or has any power to determine
or influence the management or administration of another club or Football
League club
Either directly or indirectly he holds or acquires any Significant Interest in
a club while he either directly or indirectly holds any interest in any class
of shares of another club
He becomes prohibited by law from being a director
He is convicted on indictment of an offence set out in the Appendix 12
Schedule of Offences or he is convicted of a like offence by a competent
court having jurisdiction outside England and Wales
He makes an Individual Voluntary Arrangement or becomes the subject of
an Interim Bankruptcy Restriction Order, a Bankruptcy Restriction Order
or a Bankruptcy Order
He is a director of a club which, while he has been a director of it, has
suffered two or more unconnected events of insolvency
He has been a director of two or more clubs or clubs each of which, while
he has been a director of them, has suffered an Event of Insolvency.
SCHEDULE OF OFFENCES:
- Conspiracy to defraud: Criminal Justice Act 1987, section 12
- Conspiracy to defraud: Common Law
- Corrupt transactions with (public) agents, corruptly accepting consideration: Prevention of Corruption Act 1906, section 1
- Insider dealing: Criminal Justice Act 1993, sections 52 and 61
- Public servant soliciting or accepting a gift: Public Bodies (Corrupt Practices) Act 1889, section 1
- Theft: Theft Act 1968, section 1
- Obtaining by deception: Theft Act 1968, section 15
- Obtaining a money transfer by deception: Theft Act 1968, section 15A + B
- Obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception: Theft Act 1968, section 16
- False accounting: Theft Act 1968, section 17
- False statements by Company Directors: Theft Act 1968, section 19
- Suppression of (company) documents: Theft Act 1968, section 20
- Retaining a wrongful credit: Theft Act 1968, section 24A
- Obtaining services by deception: Theft Act 1978, section 1
- Evasion of liability by deception: Theft Act 1978, section 2
- Cheating the Public Revenue/Making false statements tending to defraud the public revenue: Common Law
- Punishment for fraudulent training: Companies Act 1985, section 458
- Penalty for fraudulent evasion of duty etc: Customs & Excise Management Act 1979, section 170
- Fraudulent evasion of VAT: Value Added Tax Act 1994 section 72
- Person subject to a Banning order (as defined) : Football (Disorder) Act 2000, Schedule 1
- Forgery: Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981, section 1
- Copying a false instrument : Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981, section 2
- Using a false instrument: Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981, section 3
- Using a copy of a false instrument: Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981, section 4
- Cheating the Public Revenue/ Making false statements tending to defraud the public revenue: Common Law
- Punishment for fraudulent training: Companies Act 1985, section 458
- Penalty for fraudulent evasion of duty etc: Customs & Excise Management Act 1979, section 170
- Fraudulent evasion of VAT: Value Added Tax Act 1994, section 72
- Person subject to a Banning order (as defined): Football (Disorder) Act 2000, Schedule 1
- Forgery: Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981, section 1
- Copying a false instrument: Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981, section 2
- Using a false instrument: Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981, section 3
- Using a copy of a false instrument: Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981, section 4
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