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(1) No person is qualified to be a member of the commission who

(a) has been adjudged or otherwise declared

(i) bankrupt under any law in force in Ghana and has not been discharged; or

(ii) to be of unsound. mind or is detained as a criminal lunatic under any law in force in Ghana; or

(b)has been convicted

(i) for high crime under the Constitution or high treason or treason or for an offence involving the security of the State, fraud, dishonest, or moral turpitude; or.

(ii) for any other offence punishable by death or by sentence of not less than 10 years: or

(c) has been found by the report of a commission or a committee of inquiry to be incompetent to hold public office or is a person in respect of whom a commission or committee of inquiry has found that  while being a public officer has acquired assets unlawfully or defrauded the State or misused or abused his office, or wilfully acted in a manner prejudiced to the interest of the State, and the findings have not been set, aside on appeal or judicial review; or

(d) is under sentence of death or other sentence of imprisonment imposed on him by any court; or

(e) is otherwise disqualified by a law for the time being in force.

(2) Members of the commission shall be persons of high moral character and integrity and the President shall in appointing a member have regard to the expertise and experience of the person and his ability to contribute to the work of the Commission.

(3) Without. prejudice to subsections (1) and (2) of this section a member of the commission shall cease to be a member if –

(a) in the case of a person possess of professional qualification. he is disqualified or suspended from practising, his profession by an order of complete authority made in respect of him personally or ceases to be a member of the profession otherwise than at his own request; or

(b) he is absent from four consecutive meetings of the commission without sufficient reason.