(1) A medical board shall be held whenever it is necessary for a teacher to be examined with a view to ascertaining whether or not the teacher should be retired on grounds of ill-health.
(2) A teacher may be required by the Commission to undergo a medical examination at any time.
(3) A teacher who is required to undergo a medical examination shall submit himself or herself to be examined by a medical board at such time and place as the Permanent Secretary may direct on behalf of the Commission.
(4) Where a teacher, through refusal or neglect to obtain specialist advice or to obtain treatment when so recommended by the medical board, falls sick and in consequence is unable to perform his or her duties, the Commission may direct that the period during which he or she is unable to perform his or her duties shall be counted as leave without pay.
(5) Whenever it is considered necessary for a teacher to be examined with a view to ascertaining whether or not he or she should be retired on grounds of ill-health, the Permanent Secretary shall make a recommendation to this effect to the Commission and where there is a medical record of the teacher, the record shall be made available to the medical board.
(6) Where a deterioration in the work of the teacher is the reason or one of the reasons for requesting that the teacher undergo a medical examination, the Permanent Secretary shall submit, with his or her recommendation under subregulation (5), a detailed report on any change in the quality of the teacher's work in order to assist the medical board in carrying out the medical examination of the officer concerned.