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Dave King and Paul Murray will have to satisfy both AIM Stock Exchange and the Scottish Football Association they meet "fit and proper" criteria in their bid to become Rangers directors should they win an extraordinary general meeting vote.Both men were part of the Rangers board in the year prior to going into administration, while King paid £44m to avoid jail after pleading guilty to contravening South African tax laws.To be a director of an AIM company, an individual must declare -(i) any unspent convictions in relation to indictable offences;(iii) details of any receiverships, compulsory liquidations, creditors' voluntary liquidations, administrations, company voluntary arrangements or any composition or arrangement with its creditors generally or any class of its creditors of any company where such director was a director at the time of or within the 12 months preceding such events;King, however, sits on the board of a listed company in South Africa, while both men were vocal critics of Whyte in his time in charge of Rangers. AIM depends on company shareholders and nominated advisers to vet directorial appointments.The SFA would only become involved upon being notified of a change of director. Among its "fit and proper" criteria, over which the board has discretion to decide on an individual's ability to act as a director, are whether he "has been convicted within the last 10 years of (i) an offence liable to imprisonment of two years or over, (ii) corruption or (iii) fraud."Or "been a director of a club in membership of any national association within the five-year period preceding such club having undergone an insolvency event".King and Murray would have to argue mitigating factors, with the SFA's professional game board likely to hear their case.