Statutory Instruments
2014 No. 1685
Education, England
The Teachers’ Disciplinary (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2014
Made
26th June 2014
Laid before Parliament
1st July 2014
Coming into force
1st September 2014
The Secretary of State for Education makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 210(7) of, and Schedule 11A to, the Education Act 2002( 1 ).
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Teachers’ Disciplinary (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2014 and come into force on 1st September 2014.
Amendments to the Teachers’ Disciplinary (England) Regulations 2012
2. —(1) The Teachers’ Disciplinary (England) Regulations 2012( 2 ) 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—
“ Limits of evidence requirements
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)”.
David Laws
Minister of State for Schools
Department for Education
26th June 2014
2002 c.32 . Schedule 11A was inserted by section 8 of the Education Act 2011 (c.21) and was amended by S.I. 2012/3006 , article 13(1), (2)(e). See section 212(1) of the 2002 Act for the definition of “regulations”.