Section 13: Establishment of the Environmental Practitioners Disciplinary Committee for Professional Misconduct.

(1) There is established the Environmental Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (in this Act referred to as "the Disciplinary Committee") charged with the duty of considering and determining any case of professional misconduct referred to it.
(2) The Disciplinary Committee shall consist of a Chairman and four other members of the Council appointed by the Council.
(3) The quorum of the meeting of the Committee shall be three members, including the Chairman or in his absence, his nominee.
(4) The Disciplinary Committee shall conduct investigations into any allegation against any registered member of the Institute for professional misconduct or such other conduct that warrants proceedings against the member before the Disciplinary Committee and shall make determination as to the member’s guilt or innocence.
(5) Where the Disciplinary Committee determines that a registered member is guilty of misconduct, it shall refer the matter including all its proceedings and recommendations to the Council of the Institute and the Council shall make determination as to whether the member should be -
(a) reprimanded;
(b) suspended for a period not more than 12 months; or
(c) deregistered.
(6) The Council may make rules not inconsistent with this Act as to acts which constitute professional misconduct.
(7) If a member is convicted of a criminal offence by a court or tribunal of competent jurisdiction, the member’s name shall be removed from the register.
(8) A person whose name is removed from the register under a directive of the Council under this section shall not be entitled to be registered again except under a new directive in that behalf given by the Council upon the application of that person, not less than two years from the date on which the person’s name was removed from the register.