Fit-and-proper-person test

First introduced in 2004 for owners and directors of major British football clubs, since November 2014 it also applies to the National Health Service in England for board members of NHS Trusts under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014.

The test is supervised by the Care Quality Commission but decisions are made by individual trusts.

[3] In 2018 the Health Minister commissioned a review of the test which was conducted by Tom Kark QC who made 7 recommendations to strengthen it and make it applicable throughout the NHS.

He transferred control of Chester to his son, Stephen Vaughan, Jr.[5] In March 2012, Rangers owner Craig Whyte was found not to be a fit and proper person as the result of an independent enquiry.

[6] In June 2014, Louis Tomlinson, former footballer and member of the boy band One Direction, and John Ryan, businessman and previous Chairman of Doncaster Rovers, launched a bid to buy the club but one month later Ryan was found not to be a fit and proper person due to a lack of funding.