http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1678/article/66/madeThe Virgin Islands Constitution Order 2007Civil and human rightsenKing's Printer of Acts of Parliament2012-09-24CARIBBEAN AND NORTH ATLANTIC TERRITORIESThis Order establishes a new Constitution for the Virgin Islands, to replace the Constitution of 1976. The new Constitution includes, for the first time, a chapter setting out the fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual and provisions for their enforcement. It provides for a Governor as Her Majesty’s representatives in the Islands, and for a Premier and Ministers who form a Cabinet together with the Attorney General. It provides for an elected House of Assembly, which together with Her Majesty forms the Legislature. The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court continues to have jurisdiction in the Islands. Provision is made for a Public Service Commission, a Teaching Service Commission, a Judicial and Legal Services Commission, and a Police Service Commission to provide advice on appointments to offices in these services. A new National Security Council is established, as is the office of Director of Public Prosecutions. Provision is also made for public finance, a Complaints Commissioner, and a Register of Interests.THE CONSTITUTION OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDSCHAPTER 5THE LEGISLATUREComposition
Disqualifications for elected membership66.(1)

No person shall be qualified to be elected as a member of the House of Assembly who—

(a)

holds, or is acting in, any public office;

(b)

has been adjudged or otherwise declared bankrupt under any law in force in any country and has not been discharged;

(c)

is a person certified to be insane or otherwise adjudged to be of unsound mind under any law in force in any country;

(d)

at the date of election, is under sentence of death imposed on him or her by a court of law in any country, or is serving or has at any time within the period of five years immediately preceding that date been serving any part of a sentence of imprisonment (by whatever name called) of at least twelve months imposed on him or her by such a court or substituted by competent authority for some other sentence imposed on him or her by such a court; or is under such a sentence of imprisonment the execution of which has been suspended;

(e)

is disqualified for membership of the House of Assembly by or under any law in force in the Virgin Islands relating to offences connected with elections; or

(f)

is a party to, or a partner in a firm or a director or manager of a company which is a party to, any contract with the Government of the Virgin Islands for or on account of the public service, and has not, within fourteen days before his or her nomination as a candidate for election, published in the Gazette or in a newspaper circulating in the Virgin Islands a notice setting out the nature of such contract and his or her interest, or the interest of such firm or company, in it.

(2)

For the purposes of subsection (1)(d)—

(a)

two or more sentences of imprisonment that are required to be served consecutively shall be regarded as separate sentences if none of those sentences exceeds twelve months, but if any one of such sentences exceeds that term they shall be regarded as one sentence; and

(b)

no account shall be taken of a sentence of imprisonment imposed as an alternative to or in default of the payment of a fine.

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