Education (Prohibition from Teaching or Working with Children) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

Appeals to the Care Tribunal

10.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) a person who has been prohibited from teaching or working with children under these Regulations may appeal to the Care Tribunal—

(a) save where regulation 6 applies, against a decision of the Department to prohibit him from teaching or working with children;

(b) where regulation 7 applies, against a decision not to revoke a prohibition following consideration of the representations or evidence referred to in that regulation; and

(c) against a decision not to revoke a prohibition following consideration of the information or evidence referred to in regulation 9(2).

(2) No appeal may be brought on the ground of information or evidence referred to in regulation 9(2) unless that information or evidence has first been brought to the attention of the Department under that regulation.

(3) Where a person has been convicted of any offence involving misconduct, no finding of fact on which the conviction must be taken to have been based shall be challenged on an appeal under these Regulations.