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Regulation 6 Appointment and membership of a professional conduct panelI1

England and Wales

(1)

Where the Secretary of State decides under regulation 5(4) that a case should be considered by a professional conduct panel, the Secretary of State must appoint such a panel in accordance with paragraph (2) to consider the case.

(2)

A professional conduct panel must include at least three persons, comprising—

(a)

one or more teachers or persons who have been teachers in the past five years; and

(b)

one or more other persons.

F1(3)

In this regulation, “persons who have been teachers in the past five years” means persons who were teachers in the five years immediately before the date they were appointed by the Secretary of State as suitable to be a member of a professional conduct panel.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Reg. 6(3) inserted (1.9.2014) by The Teachers’ Disciplinary (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1685), regs. 1, 2(2)

Commencement

I1

Reg. 6 in force at 1.4.2012, see reg. 1