(1) If an appeal is
made to the Authority under regulation 26, the Authority is to appoint a
committee of 2 or more people the Authority considers suitably qualified to
decide the appeal (an appeals committee ).
(2) An appeals
committee is to be appointed —
(a)
within 5 days after the appeal is received by the Authority; or
(b) if
the Authority requires evidence to be provided under
regulation 26(5) — within 5 days after the evidence is
received by the Authority.
(3) The appeals
committee is to have regard to the grounds of the appeal and any evidence
provided by the candidate in support of the appeal.
(4) In deciding the
appeal, the appeals committee may —
(a)
confirm the candidate’s reduction in marks; or
(b)
increase, to any extent the committee considers appropriate, the marks awarded
to the candidate, but not so as to be greater than they were before their
reduction under regulation 26(2).
(5) The appeals
committee is to decide the appeal and give the candidate written notification
of that decision before the day on which the results of the relevant
examination are to be published.
[Regulation 27 inserted: Gazette
7 Dec 2012 p. 5991-2.]