Education (Prohibition from Teaching or Working with Children) Regulations 2003

Appeals

12.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) an appeal to the Tribunal may be brought by a person in respect of whom a direction has been given under section 142 of the 2002 Act—

(a) save where regulation 8 applies, against a direction given to him by the Secretary of State under section 142 of the 2002 Act; and

(b) save where regulation 8(1)(b) or (c) applies, against a refusal by the Secretary of State to revoke or vary a direction given to him under section 142 of the 2002 Act following consideration of the information or evidence referred to in regulation 9.

(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 Secretary of State under regulation 9.

(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.