Teachers’ Act Article 17

Each Competent Authority shall set up a Teachers’ Professional Review Committee to assist senior secondary or lower level schools deal with cases of any of the circumstances referred to in Subparagraph 1 of Paragraph 1 of the preceding article, or in Paragraph 2 of Article 26, by accepting applications from schools regarding cases, or cases that have been referred to its Teachers’ Professional Review Committee to deliberate, in accordance with Paragraph 2 of Article 26.Each Teachers’ Professional Review Committee shall have eleven to nineteen members who each serve for a term of two years. The head of the Competent Authority shall select and appoint (assign) the members from among representatives of the administrative authority, educational scholars, legal experts, scholars and experts on children’s and youth welfare, representatives of national or local principals’ associations, representatives of national or local parents’ associations, and representatives nominated by national or Local Teachers Associations. The number of committee members of any one gender is not permitted to be less than one-third of the total number of committee members.The regulations governing the formation and operations of the Teachers’ Professional Review Committee referred to in Paragraph 1 shall be prescribed by the Central Competent Authority.A summary of the report made by each Teachers’ Professional Review Committee when a case is concluded shall be made available for the public to read.