PART II Disciplinary Functions of the Council

5 Establishment of Professional Conduct Committees
1 The Council shall establish one or more committees to be known as Professional Conduct Committees for the purposes of carrying out the functions referred to in paragraph (2).
2 The functions of a Professional Conduct Committee are—
(a) to determine cases referred to them by an Investigating Committee where it appeared to the Investigating Committee that a registered teacher has a case to answer—
(i) in relation to unacceptable professional conduct or conviction of a relevant offence, or
(ii) both in relation to unacceptable professional conduct or conviction of a relevant offence and in relation to serious professional incompetence;
(b) where a Professional Conduct Committee find a teacher—
(i) guilty of unacceptable professional conduct or to have been convicted of a relevant offence,
(ii) guilty of unacceptable professional conduct or to have been convicted of a relevant offence and, in addition, guilty of serious professional incompetence,
to consider whether to make a disciplinary order in relation to him and, if they consider that such an order should be made, to make a disciplinary order; and
(c) to determine applications under regulation 20 or 22 or matters arising in relation to disciplinary orders under regulation 21 or 23.