PART IIDisciplinary Functions of the Council

Establishment of Professional Conduct Committees5

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.