S.L. 607.1 Art. 7The Malta Qualifications Framework Appeals Board. Cap. 12. Cap. 12.

(1) There shall be a Malta Qualifications Framework

Appeals Board, hereinafter referred to as "the Appeals Board", to which any person, school or further or higher education provider may appeal if aggrieved by a decision taken by the Commission with respect to the referencing of a qualification to the Malta Qualifications Framework in terms of these regulations.

(2) Appeals provided for in sub-regulation (1) have to be filed in the Registry of the Appeals Board within ten days from the date when the decision taken by the Commission is communicated to the person, school or further or higher education provider so aggrieved.

(3) The Appeals Board shall consist of an independent Chairman and two independent Members who shall be appointed by the Minister from among persons of known integrity who appear to him to be qualified by reason of experience of, and capacity in, matters deemed appropriate for such purpose: Provided that one of the members of the Appeals Board shall also act as Secretary to the Appeals Board, with the right to vote.

(4) A member of the Appeals Board shall abstain and may be challenged in such circumstances as would disqualify a judge in terms of Sub-Title II of Title II of Book Third of the Code of

Organization and Civil Procedure; and in any such case the member shall be substituted by another person appointed for such purpose by the Minister.

(5) The members of the Appeals Board shall hold office for a period of three years, and shall be eligible for re-appointment.

(6) A member of the Appeals Board may be removed from office by the Minister on grounds of gross negligence, conflict of interest, incompetence, or acts or omissions unbecoming a member of the Appeals Board.

(7) The decisions of the Appeals Board shall be final except with respect to points of law decided by the Appeals Board, from which an appeal shall lie within twenty days to the Court of Appeal (Inferior Jurisdiction); the judge shall have the right to decide in that such appeal is frivolous or vexatious following the camera closing of the stage of written submissions; such appeal shall also be regulated by rules of court made under article 29 of the Code of Organization and Civil Procedure. FIRST SCHEDULE

MALTA QUALIFICATIONS FRAMEWORK [(Regulation 3(1)]