Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998

Disciplinary orders: general

2(1)Regulations may make provision for and in connection with authorising the Council to make disciplinary orders in relation to persons who in proceedings under this Schedule are found by the Council—

(a)to have been guilty of unacceptable professional conduct or serious professional incompetence; or

(b)to have been convicted (at any time) of a relevant offence.

(2)The regulations may, in particular, make provision—

(a)for the Council to serve on any such person notice of the disciplinary order which has been made in relation to him, and of his right to appeal against the order under paragraph 6;

(b)as to the time when any such order takes effect, whether in a case where any such person exercises that right of appeal or otherwise;

(c)for the Council to publish, in such manner as may be prescribed, such information relating to the case of any such person and any disciplinary order made by the Council as may be prescribed.

(3)In this Schedule a “disciplinary order” means—

(a)a reprimand,

(b)a conditional registration order,

(c)a suspension order, or

(d)a prohibition order.