# The General Teaching Council for Wales (Disciplinary Functions) Regulations 2001, Regulation 6: Establishment of Professional Competence Committees


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

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2001/1424/regulation/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/general-teaching-council-for-wales-disciplinary-functions-regulations-2001/regulation-6
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