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Regulation 22 Establishment of Fitness to PractiseF1I1

England and Wales

(1)

The Council must establish one or more committees to be known as Fitness to Practise Committees for the purposes of carrying out the functions referred to in paragraph (2).

(2)

The functions of a Fitness to Practise Committee are to—

(a)

determine cases referred to it by an Investigating Committee where it appeared to the Investigating Committee that the registered person has a case to answer in relation to—

(i)

unacceptable professional conduct;

(ii)

serious professional incompetence; or

(iii)

conviction of a relevant offence;

(b)

consider whether to make a disciplinary order in relation to that registered person and if it considers that such an order should be made, to make such an order where a Fitness to Practise Committee finds a registered person—

(i)

guilty of unacceptable professional conduct;

(ii)

guilty of serious professional incompetence; or

(iii)

to have been convicted of a relevant offence; and

(c)

determine applications under regulations 37, 39 or 40, or matters arising in relation to disciplinary orders under regulations 38 or 41.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in Regulations substituted (1.3.2024) by The Education Workforce Council (Main Functions) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/74), regs. 1(2), 2(2)

Commencement

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Reg. 22 in force at 1.4.2015, see reg. 1(1)