S.L. 327.557 Art. 1Citation and interpretation.

(1) The title of these regulations is the University

Suitability to Practise Regulations.

(2) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, the terms used shall be taken to mean as indicated hereunder, and the plural thereof shall be construed accordingly:

"applicant" means any person applying to be enrolled on a course;

"competent authority" means the board, council or any other entity established by law as the authority in relation to a given regulated profession; "complaint" means a complaint regarding a Student’s involvement or actions in an occurrence, as described in regulation 6, that prima facie exhibits, on the part of the Student, an impairment of suitability to practise;

"course" means any programme consisting of education, training or research and for the purposes of these regulations shall be construed to refer to such course that leads to a qualification required at law for the purposes of obtaining a warrant, licence or registration to practise a regulated profession;

"Dean" means the Dean of a faculty or the Director of an institute, centre or school of the University;

"expulsion" means the permanent removal of a Student’s name from the register of students of the University and a ban from all facilities and privileges accorded to students. This notwithstanding, a Student who has been expelled may only be allowed re-admission with the permission of Senate for such purpose, which permission may only be granted after the lapse of three years from the date of expulsion; "Faculty" means any faculty, institute, centre or school of the University; "Home Faculty" means the faculty, institute, centre or school of the University which offers the course on which the Student is enrolled;

"panel" means the Suitability to Practise Panel established under regulation 8;

"placement" means any period of training or work experience undertaken by the Student, whether as part of a course or otherwise, and whether remunerated or otherwise; "Profession" means "regulated profession" as defined in this regulation;

"professional" means a warranted, licensed or registered member of a regulated profession;

"regulated profession" means any profession for which a person is required at law to obtain a warrant, licence or registration to practise, as may be stipulated in any act or subsidiary legislation promulgated as part of the Laws of Malta; "standards" shall include standards, guidelines, rules, codes of conduct or behaviour or any such similar document, as follows:

(a) as may be applicable specifically to students pursuing education that may lead to a regulated profession, as adopted and implemented by the respective competent authority;

(b) as may be adopted and implemented by the University or a given Faculty in relation to one or more courses; "student" means a student enrolled on a course provided by the University; "suspension" means the temporary and normally total exclusion of a student from any teaching and learning activity offered by the University. During the period of suspension, a student shall not be allowed to register for, or remain registered on, any study-units; and "University" means the University of Malta.