Establishment of Professional Conduct Committees
5.—(1) The Council shall establish one or more committees to be known as Professional Conduct Committees for the purposes of carrying out the functions referred to in paragraph (2).
(2) The functions of a Professional Conduct 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 unacceptable professional conduct or conviction of a relevant offence, or
(ii)both in relation to unacceptable professional conduct or conviction of a relevant offence and in relation to serious professional incompetence;
(b)where a Professional Conduct Committee find a teacher—
(i)guilty of unacceptable professional conduct or to have been convicted of a relevant offence,
(ii)guilty of unacceptable professional conduct or to have been convicted of a relevant offence and, in addition, guilty of serious professional incompetence,
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.