(1) Where the Commission has instituted disciplinary proceedings against a teacher, the Commission shall appoint an “Investigating Committee” of one or more persons (one of whom may be a serving teacher) to hear and determine the charges against the teacher. Where a serving teacher is appointed to the Committee he or she must be in a higher grade or position than that of the teacher against whom the charges have been preferred. The Committee so appointed shall give the teacher charged a full opportunity to defend himself or herself including the right of the teacher to call any witnesses he or she may desire in support of his or her defence and the Committee hearing and determining the charges shall at all times pay due regard to the rules of natural justice.
(2) Subject to the preceding subregulation the person so appointed shall regulate all the proceedings in connection with the hearing and determination of any charge.