Teaching Council (Scotland) Act 1965

1965 CHAPTER 19

An Act to provide for the establishment in Scotland of a Teaching Council; to provide for the registration of teachers, for regulating their professional training and for cancelling registration in cases of misconduct; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.

[2nd June 1965]

Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

The General Council

1 Establishment of General Teaching Council for Scotland

(1) There shall be a body, to be called the General Teaching Council for Scotland (in this Act referred to as " the Council "), which shall have in relation to Scotland the functions assigned to it by or under this Act.

(2) The Council shall be constituted in accordance with Part I of Schedule 1 to this Act; and the supplementary provisions contained in Part II of that Schedule shall have effect with respect to the Council.

General Functions of Council

2 Standards for entry to the teaching profession

(1) It shall be the duty of the Council to keep under review the standards of education, training and fitness to teach appropriate to persons entering the teaching profession and to make to the Secretary of State from time to time such recommendations with respect to those standards as they think fit.

(2) Without prejudice to the foregoing subsection the Council may in particular make to the Secretary of State recommendations as to the conditions which, in their view, should be prescribed by him under section 7 of this Act.

(3) It shall also be the duty of the Council to consider, and make to the Secretary of State from time to time recommendations on, such other matters relating to the education, training and fitness to teach of teachers as they think fit or as may be referred to them by the Secretary of State.

3 Supply of teachers

It shall be the duty of the Council to consider, and make to the Secretary of State from time to time recommendations on, such matters (other than remuneration or conditions of service) relating to the supply of teachers as they think fit or as may be referred to them by the Secretary of State.

4 Secretary of State to have regard to recommendations

In exercising his functions under the Education (Scotland) Acts 1939 to 1965 the Secretary of State shall have regard to any recommendations made to him by the Council under the two last foregoing sections.

5 Colleges of education

(1) It shall be the duty of the Council—

(a) to keep themselves informed of the nature of the instruction given in colleges of education, and

(b) to undertake such other functions in relation to colleges of education as may be assigned to them by the Secretary of State by regulations made under section 81 of the Act of 1962 after consultation with the Council and with the governing bodies of such of those colleges as appear to him to be concerned ;

and the power to make regulations conferred on the Secretary of State by the said section 81 shall include power to make regulations for the purposes of paragraph (b) of this subsection.

(2) For the purposes of their duty under paragraph (a) of the foregoing subsection the Council may appoint on such terms as may be agreed persons to visit colleges of education on their behalf, and it shall be the duty of those visitors to report to the Council as to the general content and arrangement of the courses of instruction provided in the colleges of education visited by them; but no such visitor shall interfere with the giving of any instruction or with the conduct of any examination.

(3) Where it appears to the Council (as a result of a report under the last foregoing subsection or otherwise) that any change should be made in the general content or arrangement of the courses of instruction provided in any college of education the Council may make recommendations in that behalf to the governing body of that college ; and if, after consultation between the Council and the governing body, and any resulting modification by the Council of the recommendations, the governing body refuses to accept the recommendations (or, as the case may be, the recommendations as modified) the Council may report the circumstances to the Secretary of State.

Register of Teachers

6 Establishment of register

(1) It shall be the duty of the Council to establish and keep a register containing the names, addresses and such qualifications and other particulars as may be prescribed, of persons who are entitled under the following provisions of this section to be registered therein and who apply in the prescribed manner to be so registered.

(2) Any person shall be entitled to be registered if—

(a) he is a certificated teacher; or

(b) having fulfilled the requirements prescribed by the Secretary of State under the next following section, he has been duly recommended by the governing body of a college of education to the Council for registration ; or

(c) in the case of a person who is not entitled to be registered under either of the two foregoing paragraphs, his education, training, fitness to teach and experience are such as, in the opinion of the Council, to warrant his registration; or

(d) having been a certificated teacher whose certificate has been withdrawn or suspended, and not restored under any enactment in force before the commencement of this Act, his registration has been directed by the Disciplinary Committee under paragraph (d) of section 10(3) of this Act or, in a case not falling under that paragraph, by the Council:

Provided that the entitlement of any person to be registered by virtue of this subsection shall, in a case referred to the Disciplinary Committee under section 10(2)(b) of this Act, be subject to any direction by that Committee under section 11(2) of this Act.

(3) For avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that a person shall not be entitled to be registered by virtue of paragraph (c) of the last foregoing subsection if he has been a certificated teacher and his certificate has been withdrawn or suspended, and not restored under any enactment in force before the commencement of this Act.

(4) The Council may make rules with respect to the form and keeping of the register, and the making of entries and alterations therein ; and rules made under this subsection may in particular—

(a) provide for the registration of a person to be provisional until such conditions as may be prescribed in that behalf are satisfied, and for the cancellation of provisional registration in such circumstances as may be prescribed;

(b) provide for the payment of such fees as may be prescribed, with the approval of the Secretary of State, in relation to registration;

(c) provide for the removal of a name from the register on a failure to pay a prescribed fee and for its restoration to the register on the making of the prescribed application in that behalf and on payment of that fee and any additional fee prescribed in respect of the restoration;

(d) provide for the issue of certificates of registration ;

(e) prescribe anything required or authorised by this section to be prescribed;

(f) make such consequential, ancillary and incidental provisions as appear to the Council to be expedient for the purposes of the rules;

and in this section (except in subsection (2)(b) thereof) " prescribed " means prescribed by the Council in rules made under this subsection.

(5) Rules made under the last foregoing subsection prescribing fees may provide for the charging of different fees in different classes of case.

(6) Rules made under subsection (4) of this section shall be published in such manner as the Council may determine and shall be so made as not to come into force before the expiration of one month from the date on which they are so published.

7 Conditions for recommendation for registration

(1) Subject to the following provisions of this section the Secretary of State may make regulations prescribing conditions to be fulfilled by a person in order to qualify him for admission to a course of training to be a teacher or to be recommended by the governing body of a college of education to the Council for registration.

(2) Conditions prescribed under the foregoing subsection may include conditions requiring a person to satisfy such persons or authorities as may be so prescribed as regards his education, training and fitness to teach generally.

(3) Without prejudice to section 4 of this Act the Secretary of State shall, before making regulations under this section, consider any relevant recommendation and, unless he considers it inexpedient to do so, shall make regulations under this section giving effect to that recommendation, or, if any modification to the recommendation is approved both by the Secretary of State and by the Council, the recommendation as so modified.

(4) If the Secretary of State considers that it is inexpedient to make regulations giving effect to any relevant recommendation, but no modification thereof is approved as aforesaid and the recommendation is not withdrawn, the Secretary of State may either—

(a) refuse to make regulations giving effect to the recommendation, or

(b) make regulations giving effect to the recommendation modified in such manner as he thinks fit.

(5) If the Secretary of State proposes to make regulations under this section otherwise than in consequence of a relevant recommendation he shall, before publishing a draft thereof in pursuance of section 144(2) of the Act of 1962, afford to the Council an opportunity of considering the draft and shall have regard to representations made by them.

(6) If the Secretary of State refuses to make regulations under this section giving effect to a relevant recommendation he shall, as soon as may be, publish in such manner as he thinks fit a statement of the terms of the recommendation and his reasons for refusing to make regulations giving effect to it.

(7) If the Secretary of State proposes to make regulations under this section—

(a) in the circumstances mentioned in subsection (4)(b) above, or

(b) in the circumstances mentioned in subsection (5) above, and without giving effect to any representations made by the Council under that subsection,

he shall, when publishing a draft of the regulations in pursuance of section 144(2) of the Act of 1962, publish in such manner as he thinks fit a statement of the terms of the relevant recommendation, his reasons for modifying it and, if the Council have notified him of any objections to the modifications, those objections; or, as the case may be, a statement of any representations made by the Council under the said subsection (5) and his reasons for not giving effect to them.

(8) Section 144 of the Act of 1962 (except subsection (3) thereof) shall apply to the making of regulations under this section as it applies to the making of the regulations referred to in that section.

(9) In this section " relevant recommendation" means a recommendation made by the Council under section 2(2) of this Act.

8 Principles for entitlement to registration under s. 6(2)(c)

The Council shall from time to time prepare, and publish in such manner as they think fit, a statement specifying the principles to which they will have regard in considering, for the purpose of section 6(2)(c) of this Act, whether a person's education, training, fitness to teach and experience warrant his registration.

9 Penalty for false representations etc. to obtain registration

If a person—

(a) procures or attempts to procure the entry of any name on the register by wilfully making or producing or causing to be made or produced, either orally or in writing, any declaration, certificate or representation which he knows to be false or fraudulent, or

(b) falsely or fraudulently holds himself out to be registered,

he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £100.

Disciplinary Provisions

10 Investigating and Disciplinary Committees

(1) The Council shall set up from their own number two committees, to be known respectively as the Investigating Committee and the Disciplinary Committee.

(2) The Investigating Committee shall be charged with the duty of conducting a preliminary investigation into any case where it is alleged—

(a) that a registered person is liable under the provisions of this Act to have his name removed from the register, or

(b) that a person who has been duly recommended for registration, and has applied to be registered, has been convicted of a serious offence, or has been otherwise guilty of serious misconduct;

and, if, after such investigation, it considers it just to do so, the Investigating Committee shall refer the case to the Disciplinary Committee.

(3) The Disciplinary Committee shall be charged with the duty of considering and determining—

(a) any case referred to it by the Investigating Committee under the last foregoing subsection ;

(b) any application by a person for the restoration of his name to the register;

(c) any second or subsequent application for registration by a person whose original application has been refused in pursuance of a direction of the Disciplinary Committee under subsection (2) of the next following section;

(d) any application for registration by any person who has been a certificated teacher but whose certificate has been withdrawn on the ground of misconduct, or suspended on that ground, and not restored under any enactment in force before the commencement of this Act.

(4) The Council shall make rules regulating—

(a) the membership of each of the said committees, so however that in each there shall be a majority of registered teachers, and that no person (other than the chairman of the Council) who has acted as a member of the Investigating Committee with respect to any case shall act as a member of the Disciplinary Committee with respect to that case ;

(b) the times and places of the meetings, the quorum and the mode of summoning the members, of the Disciplinary Committee.

(5) The provisions of Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect with respect to the procedure of the Disciplinary Committee.

11 Decisions of Disciplinary Committee

(1) Where a registered person—

(a) has been convicted (whether in Scotland or elsewhere) of a criminal offence which, in the opinion of the Disciplinary Committee, renders him unfit to be registered; or

(b) is judged by the Disciplinary Committee to be guilty of infamous conduct in any professional respect,

or where the Disciplinary Committee is satisfied that the name of such a person has been registered in error in consequence of any false or fraudulent declaration or representation, that Committee may, if it thinks fit, direct that the person's name shall be removed from the register.

(2) Where a person who has been duly recommended for registration, and has applied for registration—

(a) has been convicted (whether in Scotland or elsewhere) of a criminal offence, or

(b) is judged by the Disciplinary Committee to be guilty of misconduct,

which, in the opinion of that Committee, renders him unfit to be registered, that Committee may, if it thinks fit, direct that the person's application shall be refused.

(3) A person—

(a) whose application for registration has been refused in pursuance of a direction by the Disciplinary Committee under section 10(3)(d) of this Act or under the last foregoing subsection, or

(b) whose name is removed from the register in pursuance of a direction of the Disciplinary Committee under subsection (1) of this section,

shall not be entitled to be registered or, as the case may be, registered again, except in pursuance of a direction given by that Committee on the application of that person.

(4) The Disciplinary Committee, in directing that a person's application for registration or re-registration shall be refused or that a person's name shall be removed from the register, may prohibit that person from applying, or, as the case may be, applying again, for a direction under the last foregoing subsection until the expiration of such period, not exceeding twelve months from the date of the direction, as may be specified in the prohibition.

(5) When the Disciplinary Committee directs that a person's application for registration or re-registration shall be refused, or that a person's name shall be removed from the register, the Committee shall cause notice of the direction to be served on that person, and any such notice shall include a statement of the facts found to have been proved in the proceedings before the Committee and the reasons for the direction.

12 Appeals

(1) Any person—

(a) in respect of whom a direction has been made by the Disciplinary Committee under subsection (1) or subsection (2) of the last foregoing section ;

(b) whose application for the restoration of his name to the register has been refused by the Disciplinary Committee;

(c) whose application for registration has been refused in pursuance of a direction by the Disciplinary Committee under section 10(3) (d) of this Act;

may, within twenty-eight days of the service on him of notice of the direction, appeal against the direction to the Court of Session in accordance with such rules as may be made by the Court by Act of Sederunt for the purposes of this subsection; and on any such appeal the Court of Session may give such directions in the matter as it thinks proper, including directions as to the expenses of the appeal.

(2) No appeal shall lie from a decision of the Court of Session on an appeal under this section.

(3) On an appeal under this section the Council shall be entitled to appear as respondent; and, whether they so appear or not, the Council shall be deemed for the purposes of any award of expenses in the appeal to be a party thereto.

(4) No direction under subsection (1) of the last foregoing section shall take effect until—

(a) where the person concerned appeals against the direction in accordance with this section, the appeal has been withdrawn or dismissed, or

(b) in any other case, the expiration of the period limited by this section for so appealing.

Miscellaneous and Supplementary

13 Service of notices

Any notice or other document authorised or required to be served under this Act may, without prejudice to any other method of service, be served by registered or recorded delivery post; and for the purpose of the application to this section of section 26 of the [1889 c. 63.] Interpretation Act 1889 (which relates to service by post) the proper address of a person to whose registration such a notice or other document relates shall, if he is a registered person, be his address on the register.

14 Orders

(1) Any power conferred by this Act to make an order shall include power to vary or revoke the order by a subsequent order.

(2) Any order made by the Secretary of State under this Act shall be made by statutory instrument; and a statutory instrument containing any such order (except an order under section 18(3) of this Act) shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

15 Financial provisions

(1) The Secretary of State may from time to time make to the Council such grants as he thinks fit in respect of expenses incurred or to be incurred by the Council in discharging their functions under this Act, and may make to the Council such loans as he thinks fit in respect of the initial expenses incurred or to be incurred by the Council in establishing the register.

(2) Where the Secretary of State incurs expenses under paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to this Act in connection with the first election of the Council he shall be deemed to have made to the Council a loan of an amount equal to the amount of the expenses incurred.

(3) Any loan made, or deemed to be made, to the Council by the Secretary of State under the foregoing provisions of this section shall be subject to such terms and conditions, and shall be repaid to him at such times, as he may, with the approval of the Treasury, direct.

(4) Any expenses incurred by the Secretary of State under this Act shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.

(5) Any sums received by the Secretary of State under this Act shall be paid into the Exchequer.

16 Amendment of Act of 1962

(1) So much of section 81 of the Act of 1962 as confers power on the Secretary of State to award certificates of competency to teach in schools or other educational establishments shall cease to have effect, and accordingly in that section paragraph (a) of subsection (1), and in subsection (3) the words " certificates or " and the words " certificates and ", wherever they occur, are hereby repealed.

(2) In the Act of 1962 (except in section 145(11) thereof) any reference to a certificated teacher shall, unless the context otherwise requires, include a reference to a teacher registered under this Act.

17 Interpretation

(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them respectively:—

• " Act of 1962 " means the [1962 c. 47.] Education (Scotland) Act 1962 ;

• " approved school " means a school approved under section 83 of the [1937 c. 37.] Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937;

• " notice " means a notice in writing ;

• " register " means the register established by the Council under section 6 of this Act; and " registered " and " registration " shall be construed accordingly ;

• " teach " means teach in an educational establishment (as defined in section 145 of the Act of 1962) or in an approved school, and " teaching " and " teacher " shall be construed accordingly.

(2) Any expression used in this Act and in the Act of 1962 has in this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the same meaning as it has in that Act.

(3) Any reference in this Act to an enactment shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended or extended by or under any other enactment, including this Act.

18 Short title, extent and commencement

(1) This Act may be cited as the Teaching Council (Scotland) Act 1965.

(2) This Act extends to Scotland only.

(3) This Act shall come into operation on such day as the Secretary of State may by order appoint; and different days may be appointed for different provisions.

SCHEDULES

Section 1.

SCHEDULE 1 The Council

PART I

Constitution of the Council

1 (1) Subject to the provisions of this Schedule the Council shall consist of 44 persons, comprising—

(a) 25 persons representing registered teachers (in this Schedule referred to as " elected members ");

(b) 15 persons (in this Schedule referred to as " appointed members ") appointed as follows:—

(i) two by the Association of County Councils in Scotland ;

(ii) two by the Scottish Counties of Cities Association ;

(iii) three by the Association of Directors of Education in Scotland ;

(iv) four by the universities of Scotland ;

(v) two by the governing bodies of the central institutions ;

(vi) one by the Education Committee of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland ;

(vii) one by the Scottish Hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church;

(c) 4 persons (in this Schedule referred to as "nominated members ") nominated by the Secretary of State.

(2) The elected members shall comprise:—

(a) 5 registered teachers employed in colleges of education, including 4 (but not more than 4) principals ;

(b) 2 registered teachers employed in further education centres, including 1 (but not more than 1) principal;

(c) 9 registered teachers employed in secondary schools, including 5 (but not more than 5) head teachers ;

(d) 9 registered teachers employed in primary schools, including 5 (but not more than 5) head teachers.

(3) In the foregoing provisions of this paragraph references to primary schools and to secondary schools include respectively references to primary departments and secondary departments of schools having departments of different grades; references to the universities of Scotland and to the central institutions shall be construed, in relation to any appointment, as references respectively to the universities of Scotland and the central institutions established at the time when the appointment falls to be made ; and—

(a) " employed " means employed on a whole-time basis; and

(b) "further education centre" means an institution for the provision of further education but does not include—

(i) a university, a theological college or a hostel or other residence used exclusively by students attending university or theological college, or

(ii) a central institution, a college of education, a hostel used mainly by pupils attending central institutions or colleges of education, or, unless the Secretary of State otherwise directs, a residential institution conducted under a scheme under the Educational Endowments (Scotland) Acts 1928 to 1935 or Part VI of the [1946 c. 72.] Education (Scotland) Act 1946 or Part VI of the Act of 1962.

(4) The elected members who are principals of colleges of education shall be elected by the principals of those colleges.

(5) The elected members other than the principals of colleges of education shall, subject to paragraph 2 of this Schedule, be elected in accordance with the provisions of a scheme made under the next following sub-paragraph.

(6) For the purpose of the last foregoing sub-paragraph the Council shall, within two years of their establishment, make a scheme, which shall include provision for—

(a) the appointment of a returning officer and of such staff as may be necessary;

(b) the making up of a roll of electors consisting of all registered teachers whether in employment as such or not, showing the category of elected member for which each registered teacher is entitled to vote ;

(c) the giving of notice of the holding of an election ;

(d) the nomination of candidates ;

(e) any other matter necessary for the holding of the elections.

(7) A scheme made under the last foregoing sub-paragraph may be modified or revoked by a subsequent scheme made by the Council under that sub-paragraph.

(8) A scheme made under this paragraph shall not come into force until approved by the Secretary of State by order.

2 (1) In respect of the initial membership of the Council the foregoing paragraph shall have effect in relation to elected members as if any reference in that paragraph to registered teachers included a reference to certificated teachers, and as if sub-paragraphs (5) to (8) thereof were omitted ; and the elected members other than the principals of colleges of education shall be elected by certificated teachers, being teachers employed in educational establishments and in approved schools, in accordance with arrangements made by the Secretary of State.

(2) Arrangements made for the purposes of the foregoing sub-paragraph shall secure—

(a) that a teacher shall not be eligible to be elected unless he is, on such date as may be determined by or under the arrangements, employed in an educational establishment of one of the categories referred to in paragraph 1(2) of this Schedule ; and

(b) that each teacher shall be entitled to vote only in respect of an elected member employed in an educational establishment of the same category as that in which he himself is employed on that date ;

and shall provide for the determination by the Secretary of State of the category in which a teacher is employed.

3 (1) No person shall take office as a member of the Council (whether on election or re-election) after attaining the age of 70 years.

(2) No person shall be eligible for election or re-election if by virtue of this paragraph he would be prohibited from taking office in pursuance of that election or re-election ; but a person who attains the said age during a period of office in respect of which he has been duly elected or re-elected shall not thereby vacate office.

(3) The two last foregoing sub-paragraphs shall apply to appointment and nomination, and re-appointment and re-nomination, as they apply to election and re-election.

4 (1) Subject to paragraph 5(3) of this Schedule the period of office of members of the Council shall be four years.

(2) A member shall vacate office—

(a) on the expiration of his period of office ;

(b) on the taking effect of any notice of resignation given by him to the Council;

(c) on his estate being sequestrated or on his executing a trust deed for creditors,

whichever first occurs.

(3) Nothing in this paragraph shall prevent the election or re-election of a person who has ceased to be a member, or will have so ceased at or before the commencement of the term of office to which the election or re-election relates.

(4) The last foregoing sub-paragraph shall apply to appointment and nomination, and to re-appointment and re-nomination, as it applies to election and re-election.

5 (1) Where an elected member dies or vacates office before the expiration of his period of office the vacancy shall be filled by the person who, in the election of that member, obtained the second highest number of votes; whom failing, by the person who in that election obtained the next highest number of votes, and so on; and if no such person is available the Council shall fill the vacancy by co-opting such registered teacher or certificated teacher as they think fit, being a teacher of like electoral qualifications as the said member.

(2) Where an appointed or nominated member dies or vacates office before the expiration of his period of office the vacancy shall be filled by the appointment or, as the case may be, nomination of another person by the body, group of bodies or person who appointed or nominated the member who has died or vacated office.

(3) In relation to a member who takes office by virtue of this paragraph, paragraph 4 of this Schedule shall have effect as if, for the reference in sub-paragraph (1) thereof to four years, there v/ere substituted a reference to the unexpired part of the period of office of the member who has died or vacated office.

6 (1) The Secretary of State may, if owing to a change of circumstances he considers it expedient to do so, and after consultation with the Council and any other body or person who appears to him to be concerned, by order amend the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Schedule:

Provided that an order under this paragraph shall not reduce the proportion which the number of members of the Council who are elected members (other than principals of colleges of education) bears, under the said foregoing provisions, to the total number of members.

(2) An order under this paragraph may contain such consequential and ancillary provisions as the Secretary of State thinks necessary for the purposes of the order.

PART II

Supplementary provisions relating to the Council

Incorporation

7 The Council shall be a body corporate, with a common seal.

Powers

8 In addition to the powers conferred on the Council by the other provisions of this Act, the Council shall have power to acquire, dispose of, and otherwise intromit with, rights in land.

Chairman

9 (1) The chairman of the Council shall be appointed by the members of the Council from their own number.

(2) The chairman, or in his absence the person acting as chairman, of the Council shall have a casting vote in the proceedings of the Council.

Assessors

10 The Secretary of State may appoint not more than two persons to be assessors for him at the proceedings of the Council; and each such assessor (or in his absence from any proceedings such other person as may be nominated by him for the purpose of those proceedings) shall be entitled to attend and speak at the proceedings of the Council and of any committee thereof except the Investigating Committee and the Disciplinary Committee ; but no assessor shall be entitled to vote at any such proceedings.

Proceedings

11 The powers of the Council, and any committee thereof, may be exercised notwithstanding any vacancy in the membership thereof; and the proceedings of the Council or any such committee shall not be invalidated by reason only of any defect in the election, appointment or nomination of a member.

Standing orders

12 Subject to the provisions of this Act the Council may make standing orders for the regulation of their proceedings and the quorum at such proceedings, and of the proceedings, and the quorum at the proceedings, of any committee of the Council other than the Disciplinary Committee ; and for the keeping of records, the execution of documents and such other matters connected with the conduct of the Council's business as the Council think fit.

Expenses and accounts

13 (1) Any fees payable by virtue of this Act in respect of the entry, or retention of a name on, or the restoration of a name to, the register shall be paid to the Council, and any expenses of the Council shall be defrayed out of the sums received by the Council either on account of those fees or otherwise.

(2) The Council shall keep proper accounts of all sums received or paid by them, and proper records in relation to those accounts, and the accounts for each financial year of the Council shall be audited by auditors appointed by the Council; and as soon as any accounts of the Council have been audited the Council shall cause them to be published, and shall send a copy of them to the Secretary of State, together with a copy of any report of the auditors thereon.

(3) No person shall be qualified to be appointed as an auditor under this paragraph unless he is a member of one or more of the following bodies:—

• the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland ;

• the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales ;

• the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland ;

• the Association of Certified and Corporate Accountants ;

• any other body of accountants established in the United Kingdom and for the time being recognised for the purposes of section 161(1)(a) of the [1948 c. 38.] Companies Act 1948 by the Board of Trade ;

but a Scottish firm may be so appointed if each of the partners thereof is qualified to be so appointed.

Officials

14 (1) The Council may employ a registrar and such other whole-time and part-time officers and servants as they may require to enable them to carry out their functions, and may do so on such terms as to remuneration, allowances or otherwise as the Council may determine.

(2) The Council may require any person employed by them whose responsibility includes intromission with their funds to find such caution as they may determine for his duly accounting for his intromissions.

(3) The Council may pay, or enter into arrangements with insurance companies or local authorities for the payment of, pensions and other superannuation benefits to persons who have been employed by them.

Allowances for members

15 The Council may, with the approval of the Secretary of State, pay to their members, and to other persons who are members of any committee appointed by the Council, such travelling, subsistence and other allowances as they think fit.

Committee on exceptional admission to the register

16 (1) The Council shall appoint a committee, consisting of not more than one-third of the members of the Council, to review from time to time the principles specified in any statement under section 8 of this Act, and shall delegate to that committee the functions of the Council in dealing, in accordance with those principles, with applications for registration by virtue of section 6(2)(c) of this Act.

(2) Any person aggrieved by a decision of the said committee refusing that person's application for registration shall be entitled to require the Council to review the decision ; and in relation to any such review no person, other than the chairman of the Council, who was a member of the said committee at the time when its decision was taken shall be entitled to take part in the proceedings of the Council.

(3) Where the Council in pursuance of the last foregoing sub-paragraph review a decision of the said committee they shall afford to the applicant, if he so desires, an opportunity of appearing before them and being heard in relation to the review.

(4) Where the said committee or the Council, under sub-paragraph (1) or, as the case may be, sub-paragraph (2) of this paragraph, refuse a person's application for registration, the committee or, as the case may be, the Council shall cause notice of the refusal to be served on that person; and any such notice shall include a statement of the reasons for the refusal.

Other committees

17 Subject to the last foregoing paragraph and to the provisions of this Act relating to the Investigating Committee and the Disciplinary Committee, the Council may appoint such committees (consisting either wholly of members of the Council or partly of such members and partly of other persons) as the Council think fit; and any committee appointed under this paragraph may appoint such subcommittees as the committee thinks fit.

Section 10.

SCHEDULE 2 Procedure of Disciplinary Committee

1 For the purpose of any proceedings before the Disciplinary Committee, the Committee may administer oaths ; and the Court of Session shall, on the application of any party to the proceedings, have the like power as in any action in that Court to grant warrant for the citation of witnesses and havers to give evidence or to produce documents before the Committee, and for the issue of letters of second diligence against any witness or haver failing to appear after due citation, to grant warrant for the recovery of documents, and to grant commissions to persons to take the evidence of witnesses or to examine havers and receive their exhibits and productions.

2 (1) Subject to the next following sub-paragraph, the Council shall make rules as to the procedure to be followed and the rules of evidence to be observed in proceedings before the Disciplinary Committee, and in particular—

(a) for securing that notice that the proceedings are to be brought shall be given, at such time and in such manner as may be specified by the rules, to any person whose case has been referred to the Committee under section 10(2) of this Act, and that such notice shall include a statement of the alleged facts and circumstances on which the proceedings are to be based ;

(b) for determining who, in addition to the person aforesaid, shall be a party to the proceedings ;

(c) for securing that any party to the proceedings shall, if he so requires, be entitled to be heard by the Committee ;

(d) for enabling any party to the proceedings to be represented by counsel or solicitor or otherwise ;

(e) for requiring the proceedings to be held in public except so far as may be provided by the rules ;

(f) for securing that where evidence is tendered which would be inadmissible in criminal proceedings in Scotland it shall not be admitted by the Committee unless, after consultation with the assessor acting under paragraph 3 of this Schedule, the Committee is satisfied that its duties under this Act require that it should be admitted ;

(g) for requiring, in cases where it is alleged that a person is guilty of infamous conduct in any professional respect, that where the Committee judges that the allegation has not been proved it shall record a finding that the person is not guilty of such conduct in respect of the matters to which the allegation relates.

(2) As respects proceedings for—

(a) the restoration to the register of the name of a person whose name was previously removed from the register by direction of the Disciplinary Committee,

(b) the determination of an application under section 10(3)(d) of this Act, or

(c) the determination of a second or subsequent application for registration by a person whose original application has been refused in pursuance of a direction by the Disciplinary Committee under section 11(2) of this Act,

the Council shall have power to make rules with respect to all or any of the matters mentioned in the foregoing sub-paragraph, but shall not be required to do so; and separate rules under this paragraph may be made as respects such proceedings.

(3) Rules under this paragraph shall not come into force until approved by the Lord President of the Court of Session.

3 (1) For the purpose of advising the Disciplinary Committee on questions of law arising in proceedings before it, there shall in all such proceedings be an assessor to the Committee who shall be an advocate or solicitor of not less than ten years' standing appointed by the Council; but if no assessor appointed by the Council is available to act in any particular proceedings the Committee may appoint an assessor qualified as aforesaid for those proceedings.

(2) The Lord President of the Court of Session may, by statutory instrument, make rules as to the functions of assessors appointed under this paragraph, and in particular such rules may contain provision for securing—

(a) that where an assessor advises the Disciplinary Committee on any question of law as to evidence, procedure or any other matters specified by the rules, he shall do so in the presence of every party or person representing a party to the proceedings who appears thereat or, if the advice is tendered while the Committee is deliberating in private, that every such party or person as aforesaid shall be informed what advice the assessor has tendered;

(b) that every such party or person as aforesaid shall be informed if in any case the Committee does not accept the advice of the assessor on such a question as aforesaid ;

and may contain such incidental and supplementary provisions as the Lord President considers expedient.

(3) The [1946 c. 36.] Statutory Instruments Act 1946 shall apply to any statutory instrument made by the Lord President under the last .foregoing sub-paragraph as if the instrument had been made by a Minister of the Crown.

(4) Except in the case of an assessor appointed by the Committee itself under sub-paragraph (1) above, an assessor may be appointed under this paragraph either generally or for any particular proceedings or class of proceedings, and shall hold and vacate office in accordance with the terms of the instrument under which he is appointed.

(5) The Council shall pay to an assessor appointed under this paragraph remuneration at such rates as may be determined by the Council with the consent of the Lord President.