Welsh Statutory Instrument 2001 No. 1424 (W.99)

The General Teaching Council for Wales (Disciplinary Functions) Regulations 2001

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"Code of Practice" ("Cod Ymarfer") means the code of practice authorised to be issued under regulation 13 of the General Teaching Council for Wales (Functions) Regulations 2000[3];

"the Council" ("y Cyngor") means the General Teaching Council for Wales;

"disciplinary order" ("gorchymyn disgyblu") in relation to a teacher in Wales or England means "a reprimand" ("cerydd"), "a conditional registration order" ("gorchymyn cofrestru amodol"), "a suspension order" ("gorchymyn atal") or "a prohibition order" ("gorchymyn gwahardd") within the meaning of Schedule 2 to the 1998 Act;

"disciplinary proceedings" ("achos disgyblu") in relation to a teacher in Wales or England means disciplinary proceedings under Schedule 2 to the 1998 Act;

"independent school" ("ysgol annibynnol") has the same meaning as in section 463 of the Education Act 1996[4];

"institution within the further education sector" ("sefydliad yn y sector addysg bellach") has the meaning given to it by section 91(3) of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992[5];

"institution within the higher education sector" ("sefydliad yn y sector addysg uwch") has the meaning given to it by section 91(5) of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992;

"Investigating Committee" ("Pwyllgor Ymchwilio") means a committee established under regulation 3(1);

"the National Assembly" ("y Cynulliad Cenedlaethol") means the National Assembly for Wales;

"Professional Competence Committee" ("Pwyllgor Cymhwysedd Proffesiynol") means a committee established under regulation 6(1);

"Professional Conduct Committee" ("Pwyllgor Ymddygiad Proffesiynol") means a committee established under regulation 5(1);

"the Register" ("y Gofrestr") means the register of teachers which the Council are required to establish and maintain in accordance with section 3 of the 1998 Act and the General Teaching Council for Wales (Functions) Regulations 2000 and "registration" ("cofrestru") means registration on the Register;

"relevant offence" ("tramgwydd perthnasol") has the same meaning as in Schedule 2 to the 1998 Act;

"school maintained by a local education authority" ("ysgol a gynhelir gan awdurdod addysg lleol") has the same meaning as in section 142(1) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998[6];

"special school" ("ysgol arbennig") has the same meaning as in section 337(1) of the Education Act 1996[7]; and

"unacceptable professional conduct" ("ymddygiad proffesiynol annerbyniol") has the same meaning as in Schedule 2 to the 1998 Act.

    (2) In regulations 18 and 28, "employer" ("cyflogydd") means - 

(a) a person who employs a registered teacher to work as a teacher at - 


(i) a school maintained by a local education authority,

(ii) a special school not maintained by a local education authority,

(iii) an institution providing further or higher education or both which is maintained by a local education authority or is within the further education sector, or

(iv) an institution within the higher education sector in receipt of financial support under section 65 of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992[8];



(b) a local education authority which employs a registered teacher to work as a teacher otherwise than at a school or institution falling within sub-paragraph (a);

(c) a local education authority or the governing body of a school or institution falling within sub-paragraph (a) which employs a registered teacher in work otherwise than as a teacher which brings the teacher regularly into contact with persons who have not attained the age of nineteen years; and

(d) a person who employs a registered teacher at an independent school, or the proprietor of an independent school who employs a registered teacher, to work as a teacher or in work otherwise than as a teacher which brings the teacher regularly into contact with persons who have not attained the age of nineteen years, and includes a person who engages (or makes arrangements for the engagement of) a registered teacher to provide services otherwise than under a contract of employment, and "employed" ("cyflogi" and "cyflogir") shall be construed accordingly.

    (3)

(a) In regulations 7, 8 and 9 "Committee" ("Pwyllgor") means an Investigating Committee, a Professional Conduct Committee or a Professional Competence Committee; and

(b) in regulations 11 to 16, 18 and 23 and paragraph 8 of the Schedule "Committee" ("Pwyllgor") means a Professional Conduct Committee or a Professional Competence Committee.

    (4) In regulations 11 to 15 "hearing" ("gwrandawiad") means the hearing by a Professional Conduct Committee or a Professional Competence Committee of disciplinary proceedings against a registered teacher, or a hearing under regulation 20, 21 or 22.

    (5) In regulations 8 and 28 "registered teacher" ("athro neu athrawes gofrestredig") means a person for the time being registered under section 3 of the 1998 Act, and in the remaining provisions of these Regulations it means - 

(a) a person for the time being registered under section 3 of the 1998 Act;

(b) a person who was registered under section 3 of the 1998 Act at the time of any alleged conduct or offence on his or her part; or

(c) a person who has made an application to be registered under section 3 of the 1998 Act.

    (6) Any reference in these Regulations to - 

(a) the Schedule is a reference to the Schedule to these Regulations;

(b) a numbered regulation, is a reference to the regulation bearing that number in these Regulations;

(c) a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph bearing that number in the regulation or Schedule in which the reference appears; and

(d) a numbered sub-paragraph is a reference to the sub-paragraph bearing that number in the paragraph in which the reference appears.

Delegation of Investigating Committees' functions
     4.  - (1) An Investigating Committee may delegate to an employee of the Council the functions of - 

(a) deciding whether to investigate, and investigating, allegations of a particular character or description, or particular allegations - 


(i) against a registered teacher, or

(ii) that a registered teacher has been convicted of a relevant offence;



(b) deciding whether a registered teacher has a case to answer in relation to a matter the employee investigated under sub-paragraph (a);

(c) discontinuing a case against a registered teacher where the employee has decided under paragraph (b) that there is no case to answer.

    (2) These Regulations shall apply to the exercise of a function by an employee of the Council as they would apply to the exercise of that function by an Investigating Committee.

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.

Establishment of Professional Competence Committees
     6.  - (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.

Use of the Code of Practice in disciplinary matters
     7. A Committee may take into account any failure by a registered teacher to comply with the Code of Practice in any disciplinary proceedings against that teacher

Membership and procedure of Committees
     8.  - (1) The Council must include on a Committee - 

(a) one or more lay members;

(b) one or more registered teacher members; and

(c) if none of the lay members or registered teacher members is a Council member, one or more Council members.

    (2) A person who by virtue of regulation 5(2) of the General Teaching Council for Wales (Constitution) Regulations 1999[9] is not eligible to be a member of the Council or to vote in an election for elected members of the Council shall not be eligible to be a member of a Committee.

    (3) The quorum for a meeting of a Committee shall be three members, including one lay member, one registered teacher member and if no lay member or registered teacher member present is a Council member, one Council member.

    (4) A person who is a member of the Investigating Committee investigating a case shall not be appointed as a member of the Professional Conduct Committee or Professional Competence Committee which determine that case.

    (5) Subject to paragraphs (1) to (4) and regulations 20 and 22, the Council may make such provision as they see fit as to - 

(a) the membership of a Committee;

(b) the terms on which a Committee's members are to hold and vacate office; and

(c) the procedure of a Committee.

    (6) In this regulation - 

(a) "lay member" means a member of the Committee who is neither - 


(i) a registered teacher, nor

(ii) employed, or engaged to provide services otherwise than under a contract of employment, as a teacher nor been so employed or engaged within the period of 5 years ending with the date of that person's appointment to the Committee,



and a lay member who becomes a registered teacher or who takes up a post or engagement as a teacher shall cease to be regarded as a lay member;

(b) "registered teacher member" means a member of the Committee who is - 



(i) a registered teacher, and

(ii) employed, or engaged to provide services otherwise than under a contract of employment, as a teacher on the date of that person's appointment to the Committee,



and a registered teacher member who ceases to be a registered teacher or who ceases to hold a post or engagement as a teacher shall cease to be regarded as a registered teacher member; and

(c) "Council member" means a member of the Committee who is a member of the Council.

Exclusion or restriction of Committees' powers
     9.

    (1) The functions under these Regulations of an Investigating Committee are excluded in a case where - 

(a) it is alleged that a registered teacher is guilty of unacceptable professional conduct or has been convicted (at any time) of a relevant offence, or it appears to them that a registered teacher may be so guilty or have been so convicted; but

(b) the National Assembly or the Secretary of State wishes to consider the case with a view to exercising its or his powers conferred by regulations made under section 218(6) of the Education Reform Act 1988[10] because it raises issues relating to the safety and welfare of persons under the age of 19.

    (2) The functions under these Regulations of an Investigating Committee are excluded in a case where - 

(a) it is alleged that a registered teacher is guilty of serious professional incompetence or it appears to them that a registered teacher may be so guilty; but

(b) information has not been provided to the Council pursuant to regulation 28 in relation to that teacher.

Proceedings of Investigating Committees
     10.  - (1) Where an Investigating Committee decide to carry out an investigation in relation to a registered teacher, they shall at such stage in the investigation as they consider appropriate - 

(a) inform the teacher of the nature of the allegation or case against him or her, and of his or her rights under regulation 12;

(b) afford the teacher an opportunity to submit evidence and make written representations; and

(c) consider such evidence and representations and any other evidence and material available to them.

    (2) An Investigating Committee may decide to discontinue an investigation at any time before a case is referred for determination by a Professional Conduct Committee or a Professional Competence Committee.

    (3) When their investigation is complete the Investigating Committee shall take one of the following steps - 

(a) refer the case for determination by a Professional Conduct Committee;

(b) refer the case for determination by a Professional Competence Committee;

(c) discontinue the case.

    (4) Where an Investigating Committee decide to discontinue an investigation or a case they shall inform the registered teacher concerned, and when they do so they shall at the same time inform the teacher if they decided that he or she had no case to answer.

    (5) Where an Investigating Committee decide that a registered teacher has no case to answer, they shall at his or her request publish a statement to that effect.

    (6) The Council may make such other provision as to the procedure to be followed by an Investigating Committee in connection with their investigations and other proceedings as they see fit, and may from time to time revise any rules of procedure made under this paragraph.

Proceedings of Professional Conduct Committees and Professional Competence Committees
     11.  - (1) A Committee shall determine cases against registered teachers referred to them by an Investigating Committee in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (6), regulations 12 to 15 and rules made by the Council under regulation 16.

    (2) Except as provided in paragraph (3), a Committee shall determine all cases, applications under regulation 20 or 22 or matters arising in relation to disciplinary orders under regulation 21 following a hearing.

    (3) A Committee may determine a case, application under regulation 20 or 22 or matter arising in relation to a disciplinary order under regulation 21 without a hearing at the written request of the registered teacher against whom disciplinary proceedings are being taken or against whom the disciplinary order was made unless it appears to them necessary in the interests of justice or the public interest to hold a public hearing.

    (4) A Committee may decide at any time after a case is referred to them by an Investigating Committee to discontinue that case, and if they decide to discontinue a case they shall inform the teacher concerned and when they do so they shall at the same time inform the teacher if they decided that there was no case against him or her.

    (5) Where they do not find the case against a registered teacher proved, a Committee shall at the teacher's request publish a statement to that effect.

    (6) Where they find a registered teacher - 

(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,

a Committee may make a disciplinary order in relation to the teacher in accordance with regulation 18.

Entitlement to appear and be represented at hearings
     12.

    (1) A registered teacher is entitled to appear and make oral representations and to be represented, by any person or persons whom he or she desires, at any hearing of a Committee at which his or her case is considered.

    (2) Where a registered teacher does not appear at a hearing of a Committee at which his or her case is considered, the teacher is entitled to make written representations.

Attendance of witnesses
     13. A Committee may require any person to attend and give evidence or to produce documents or other material evidence at any hearing.

Requirement for hearings to be held in public
     14.  - (1) A Committee shall announce their determination of the outcome of all hearings in public and subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) all hearings of a Committee shall take place in public.

    (2) A Committee may deliberate in private at anytime and for any purpose during or after a hearing.

    (3) A Committee may exclude the public from a hearing or any part of a hearing - 

(a) where it appears to them necessary in the interests of justice to exclude the public;

(b) where the registered teacher against whom disciplinary proceedings are being taken makes a written request that the hearing should be in private, and the Committee do not consider it to be contrary to the public interest to hold the hearing in private; or

(c) where it is necessary to protect the interests of children.

Administration of oaths and affirmations
     15. A Committee may require any witness at a hearing to give evidence on oath or affirmation and for that purpose there may be administered an oath or affirmation in due form.

Other provisions about Professional Conduct Committees' and Professional Competence Committees' procedure
     16. The Council may make such other provision as to the procedure to be followed by a Committee in connection with their determinations and other proceedings as they see fit, and may from time to time revise any rules of procedure made under this paragraph.

Referring cases to other Committees
     17.  - (1) A Professional Conduct Committee may refer a case for detemination by a Professional Competence Committee, and a Professional Competence Committee may refer a case for determination by a Professional Conduct Committee.

    (2) A Professional Conduct Committee or a Professional Competence Committee may refer a case to an Investigating Committee.

Disciplinary orders
     18.  - (1) A disciplinary order shall record the decision of the Committee, the date on which the order is made, and the date on which the order takes effect.

    (2) A conditional registration order shall in addition to the items referred to in paragraph (1) specify all the conditions relevant to his or her employment as a teacher with which the registered teacher is required to comply, and in relation to each such condition, either the period for which it has effect, or that it has effect without limit of time (as the case may be).

    (3) A suspension order shall in addition to the items referred to in paragraph (1) specify the period (not exceeding two years) at the end of which the registered teacher again becomes eligible for registration.

    (4) A prohibition order shall in addition to the items referred to in paragraph (1) specify the period (which shall not be less than two years beginning with the date on which the order takes effect) before the end of which no application may be made for a determination that the teacher is eligible for registration.

    (5) Except where a Committee otherwise decide, a disciplinary order shall take effect on the date on which notice of it is served on the person in relation to whom it is made.

    (6) A Committee shall - 

(a) serve a notice of the disciplinary order on the person in relation to whom it is made containing the following information:


(i) the text of the order,

(ii) a description of the effect of the order,

(iii) the Committee's reasons for making the order,

(iv) notification of the person's right to appeal to the High Court against the order and the time period for making such an appeal,

(v) where the order is a conditional registration order, an explanation of the steps a committee are empowered to take should the person fail to comply with a condition specified in it, and an explanation of his or her right to apply to vary or revoke a condition specified in the order and the method for making such an application, and

(vi) where the order is a prohibition order, an explanation of the person's right to apply for a determination that he or she is eligible for registration and the method for making such an application;



(b) serve notice of the order on his or her present or last employer; and

(c) send a copy of the order to the National Assembly.

    (7) Where following the determination of a case by a Committee they decide not to make a disciplinary order in relation to a registered teacher, the Committee shall notify the teacher of their decision, including the reasons for it, and when they do so they shall at the same time inform him or her if they decided that the case against him or her was not proved.

    (8) Where they do not find the case against a registered teacher proved, a Committee shall at the teacher's request publish a statement to that effect.

Publication of disciplinary orders
     19.  - (1) The Council may publish the information set out in paragraph (2) in relation to a disciplinary order - 

(a) on a website which they maintain on the internet for a period of three months starting on the date on which the order takes effect; or

(b) in such other manner as they see fit.

    (2) The information to be published is - 

(a) the name of the person in relation to whom the order is made and the name of the school or institution within the further or higher education sector at which the person was last employed, or where the person was last employed by a local education authority as a teacher otherwise than at a school or institution within the further or higher education sector the name of the local education authority;

(b) the type of disciplinary order;

(c) the date on which the disciplinary order was made and takes effect;

(d) whether the person was found to have been guilty of unacceptable professional conduct or serious professional incompetence or to have been convicted of a relevant offence;

(e) where the person was found to have been convicted of a relevant offence, the nature and date of the conviction in question; and

(f) where the person was found to have been guilty of unacceptable professional conduct or serious professional incompetence, an indication of the nature of the conduct which led to the making of the order.

Application to vary or set aside a condition in a conditional registration order
     20.  - (1) A registered teacher in relation to whom a conditional registration order has been made may apply to the Council for variation or revocation of any condition specified in the order.

    (2) An application under paragraph (1) shall be made in writing and shall specify the grounds on which the registered teacher seeks to have any condition specified in the order varied or revoked, and it shall be accompanied by every document relied upon in support of the application.

    (3) Where a conditional registration order in respect of which an application is made under paragraph (1) was made by a Professional Conduct Committee, the application shall be determined by another Professional Conduct Committee which shall not include as a member any person who was a member of the Committee which made the order complained of.

    (4) Where a conditional registration order in respect of which an application is made under paragraph (1) was made by a Professional Competence Committee, the application shall be determined by another Professional Competence Committee which shall not include as a member any person who was a member of the Committee which made the order complained of.

Consequences of failure to comply with a conditional registration order
     21. Where a Professional Conduct Committee or a Professional Competence Committee are satisfied that a registered teacher against whom a conditional registration order has been made has failed to comply with any condition of it, they may make a suspension or prohibition order in relation to the teacher.

Prohibition orders
     22.  - (1) A person in relation to whom a prohibition order has been made may apply to the Council for a determination that he or she is eligible for registration.

    (2) An application under paragraph (1) shall be made in writing and shall specify the grounds on which the person seeks the determination, and it shall be accompanied by every document relied upon in support of the application.

    (3) Where a prohibition order in respect of which an application is made under paragraph (1) was made by a Professional Conduct Committee, the application shall be determined by another Professional Conduct Committee which shall not include as a member any person who was a member of the Committee which made the order complained of.

    (4) Where a prohibition order in respect of which an application is made under paragraph (1) was made by a Professional Competence Committee, the application shall be determined by another Professional Competence Committee which shall not include as a member any person who was a member of the Committee which made the order complained of.

Review of disciplinary orders
     23. A Committee may of their own motion at any time revoke a disciplinary order made by them where - 

(a) the only or main reason for making the order was that the person in relation to whom the order was made had been convicted of a relevant offence, and after the date the order was made the conviction in question was quashed; or

(b) after the order was made the Committee obtain evidence not considered by them before they made the order, and they are satisfied that had they been aware of that evidence before they made the order they would not have made it.

Appeals
     24. Any person aggrieved by a disciplinary order made in relation to him or her shall have the right to appeal against the order to the High Court within 28 days from the date on which notice of the order is served on him or her.

Disciplinary orders made by the General Teaching Council for England
     25. A disciplinary order made by the General Teaching Council for England or a committee of that Council shall apply in relation to Wales as it applies in relation to England.

Service of notices and orders
     26.  - (1) Anything required to be served on a person for the purposes of disciplinary proceedings may be - 

(a) delivered to that person personally; or

(b) sent to that person by post to the address recorded on the Register, or left at that address; or

(c) where that person requests in writing that documents be served on him or her by such method, sent to him or her by facsimile or electronic mail or similar means which are capable of producing a document containing the text of the communication, in which case the document shall be regarded as sent when it is received by that person in a legible form.

    (2) For the purposes of regulations 18(5) and 24 notice of a disciplinary order shall be taken to have been served on the person in relation to whom it was made - 

(a) where it was delivered to that person personally, on the day of delivery;

(b) where it was sent to that person to the address recorded on the Register by a postal service which seeks to deliver documents by post no later than the next working day in all or the majority of cases, or left at that address, on the second day after the day on which it was sent or left;

(c) where it was sent to that person to the address recorded on the Register by a postal service other than one which seeks to deliver documents by post no later than the next working day in all or the majority of cases, on the fourth day after the day on which it was sent; or

(d) where that person requests in writing that documents be served on him or her by such method, and where it was sent to that person by facsimile or electronic mail or similar means which are capable of producing a document containing the text of the communication, on the second day after the day on which it was transmitted.

Publication and provision of copies of documents
     27.  - (1) The Council shall publish - 

(a) on a website which they maintain on the internet; and

(b) in such other manner as they see fit,

any rules of procedure made under regulation 10(6) or 16 and any provision made under regulation 8(5), and shall at the request of any registered teacher provide him or her with a copy of such rules or provision free of charge.

    (2) The Council shall publish any statement they are required to publish under regulation 10(5), 11(5) or 18(8) on a website which they maintain on the internet, and if they so wish they may publish the statement in such other manner as they see fit.

    (3) The Council shall make all information provided to them under this regulation available to an Investigating Committee.

    (4) In this regulation, "employer" includes a former employer.



Signed on behalf of the National Assembly under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998[11].


D.Elis Thomas
The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly

5th April 2001

[2] See the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672).back

[3] S.I. 2000/1979 (W. 140).back

[4] 1996 c.36; section 463 is amended by paragraphs 57 and 124 of Schedule 30 and by Schedule 31 to the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.back

[5] 1992 c.13.back

[6] 1998 c.31.back

[7] 1996 c.36; section 337(1) is amended by paragraph 80 of Schedule 30 to the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.back

[8] 1992 c.13; section 65 was amended by the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (c.50) and the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 (c.30).back

[9] S.I. 1999/1619 amended by S.I. 1999/3185 (W.43).back

[10] 1988 c.40. Section 218(6) is amended by section 290(3) of the Education Act 1993 (c.35) and section 5(4) of the Protection of Children Act 1999 (c.14). The regulations in force under at the time of making these regulations were the Education (Restriction of Employment) Regulations 2000, S.I. 2000/2419 which apply to both Wales and England.back

[11] 1998 c. 38.back