A person is a director of a company which has failed to file its financial statements and annual returns with the Registrar of Companies for three consecutive financial years. Under s.164 of the Companies Act 2013, he is disqualified from being reappointed as a director of that company for a period of:

Section 164 of the Companies Act 2013 deals with disqualification of directors. Under s.164(2)(a), a person who is or has been a director of a company that has not filed its financial statements or annual returns with the Registrar for any continuous period of three financial years is not eligible to be reappointed as a director of that company for five years from the date of the failure. The disqualification therefore attaches to a director who has repeatedly failed in statutory compliance rather than to a single lapse. The period is five years, not two, three, seven or ten. Disqualification under s.164(1) applies separately on grounds such as unsound mind, insolvency or conviction for certain offences, and an undischarged insolvent cannot act as a director.