For the purposes of the Elections and Public Offices Disqualification Decree, 1978 (S.M.C.D. 206) the persons specified in the Schedule to this Decree, being persons in respect of whom a Commission or Committee of Inquiry has found that they had while holding any public office acquired any assets unlawfully or defrauded the State or misused or abused their office or willfully acted in a manner prejudicial to the interests of the State, are hereby disqualified from being elected to, or appointed to, or from the holding of any public office as defined in the said Decree.