Disqualifications for membership of the Assembly

44. 1. No person shall be qualified to be elected as a member of the House of Assembly who -

a. is, by virtue of his own act, under any acknowledgment of allegiance, obedience or adherence to a foreign Power or State;

b. holds or is acting in the office of a Judge, the Director of Public Prosecutions or the Auditor General;

c. is a clerk in holy orders or other minister of religion;

d. is under sentence of death imposed by a court in any part of the Commonwealth or is serving a sentence of imprisonment (by whatever name called) exceeding six months imposed on him by such a court or substituted by competent authority for some other sentence imposed on him by such a court, or is under such a sentence of imprisonment the execution of which has been suspended;

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

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

g. is disqualified for membership of the House of Assembly by or under any law in force in Barbados by reason of his having been convicted or reported guilty of any corrupt or illegal practice at elections;

h. is disqualified for such membership by or under any such law by reason of his having been convicted of making a false declaration of qualification for election;

i. is disqualified for such membership by or under any such law on any ground not mentioned in the foregoing provisions of this subsection, being a ground for disqualification for membership of the the House of Assembly by or under any law, other than the Representation of the People Act 1957(a), in force in Barbados immediately before 30th November 1966.

2. Without prejudice to the provisions of subsection (1)(b) and (c), Parliament may provide that, subject to such exceptions and limitations as Parliament may prescribe, a person shall not be qualified to be elected as a member of the House of Assembly if -

a. he holds or is acting in any office or appointment prescribed by Parliament either individually or by reference to a class of office or appointment;

b. he belongs to any armed force of Barbados or to any class of person that is comprised in any such force; or

c. he belongs to any police force of Barbados or to any class of person that is comprised in any such force.

3. 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 six months, but if any of those 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.