2.—(1) The Teachers’ Disciplinary (England) Regulations 2012(1) are amended as follows.
(2) After regulation 6(2) insert—
“(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.”.
(3) After regulation 12 insert—
12A. Nothing in these Regulations shall be taken to require any person to give evidence or produce any document or other material evidence which the person could not be compelled to give or produce in civil proceedings in any court in England and Wales.”
(4) In regulation 13(4)(b) before “and” insert “(or, as the case may be, the person by whom the teacher was engaged to carry out teaching work)”.