League Extends Fit And Proper Test
Coca-Cola Football League clubs have voted to extend the “Fit and Proper Persons Test” which was introduced in June 2004.Coca-Cola Football League clubs have voted to extend the “Fit and Proper Persons Test” which was introduced in June 2004.
The plans were announced in a statement issued on the Football League’s official web site:
“The League became the first footballing body to introduce the Fit and Proper Persons Test (FPPT), which disqualifies people falling within certain criteria from being a football club director, in 2004. Now The League’s member clubs have voted unanimously in favour of expanding the FPPT remit at an EGM held at Walsall’s Bescot Stadium.
The FPPT will now disqualify individuals who are on the Sex Offenders register, people who have been given a custodial sentence of 12 months or more, and people who have been disqualified from acting by a professional body.
The move broadens the range of the FPPT by reflecting concerns that people convicted of serious offences should be disqualified from involvement in football.
Football League Chairman Sir Brian Mawhinney said: “Football League clubs continue to set the pace in delivering higher standards of governance in our sport. These unanimously approved measures reinforce our commitment to ensuring that only persons of a fit and proper nature can serve as directors of League clubs.
“Our supporters want the highest standards of leadership and that is what we are trying to give them.”
The FPPT announcement in June disqualified the following from taking up directorships with Football League clubs:
- Anyone subject to a ban from a sports governing body relating to the administration of that sport
- Anyone with an unspent conviction relating to fraud or dishonesty
- Anyone that is disqualified from acting as a director of a UK registered company
- Anyone currently subject to a Bankruptcy Order
- Anyone who has been a director of a club that has been in administration twice during a five-year period, or a director of two different clubs that have each gone into administration in a five-year period.
For a further explanation, please click here for the official press release.