30.- 1. No person shall be qualified to be appointed as a Senator who-

a. is, by virtue of his own act, under any acknowledgement or allegiance, obedience or adherence to a foreign power or state;

b. is a member of the House;

c. is an undischarged bankrupt, having been declared bankrupt under any law;

d. is a person certified to be insane or otherwise adjudged to be of unsound mind under any law;

e. is under sentence of death imposed on him by a court or has been sentenced to imprisonment (by whatever name called) for a term of or exceeding twelve months and has not either suffered the punishment to which he was sentenced or such other punishment as may be competent authority have been substituted therefor, or received a free pardon;

f. is disqualified for election to the House by or under any law by reason of his connection with any offence relating to elections;

g. holds or is acting in any public office or in the office of judge of the Supreme Court or Ombudsman, or is a member of the Constituencies Boundaries Commission, the Judicial and Legal Services Commission, the Public Service Commission or the Police Service Commission;

h. has, within the period of ten years immediately preceding the proposed date of his appointment as a Senator, been convicted on indictment by a court of competent jurisdiction of theft, fraud or other such crime involving dishonesty and who-

i. has not appealed against that conviction; or

ii. has appealed against that conviction and whose appeal has not been allowed; and

iii. has not received a free pardon in respect of the offence; or

i. is a minister of religion.

2. Without prejudice to the provisions of subsection (1) (g) of this section, Parliament may provide that person shall not be qualified for appointment as a Senator in any of the following cases-

a. if he holds or is acting in any office that is specified by Parliament and the functions of which involve responsibility for, or in connection with the conduct of an election or the compilation or revision of any register of electors for the purposes of an election;

b. subject to any exceptions and limitations prescribed by Parliament, if-

i. 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;

ii. he belongs to any armed force of Antigua and Barbuda or to any class of person that is comprised in any such force; or

iii. he belongs to the Police Force or to any class of person that is comprised in the Police Force.

3. For the purpose of subsection (1) (e) of this section-

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.