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Disciplinary committee
When a complaint is referred to the Disciplinary Committee, the Professional Conduct Department will notify the registered student of the date when it proposes to hear the case. The registered student is entitled to be heard before the Committee and is permitted to be represented and to call witnesses and cross-examine witnesses called against him or her. The disciplinary hearing will normally be held in public. If the Disciplinary Committee is satisfied that the complaint has been proved wholly or in part, it can make any one or more of the following orders:
- that he or she be removed from the student register;
- that the period specified in the order shall not be reckoned as part of the registered student’s approved professional experience;
- that he or she be declared ineligible for such period as shall respectively be specified in the order to sit such examination or examinations of ACCA (or such part or parts thereof) as shall be specified in the order;
- (iv) that he or she be disqualified from such examination or examinations of ACCA (or such part or part thereof) as shall be specified in the order not being an examination (or part thereof) the result of which shall have been duly notified to him or her by ACCA prior to the date of the order;
- (v) that he or she be severely reprimanded, reprimanded or admonished.
In addition, the registered student may be ordered to pay costs (see later section on costs).
Sometimes a registered student’s conduct may be investigated under these disciplinary procedures after he or she has taken ACCA examinations, but has not yet received the results. In these situations, the results will be withheld until the case has been concluded. If the registered student is removed from the ACCA student register, the examination results will not be released.