The Laws & Ethics Committee

This was first set up in July 1947 and was originally called the Rules and Ethics Committee. It became the Laws and Ethics Committee in September 1976 and was split into the Regulation and the Conduct Committee in 2025. Its original terms of reference were:

• To consider all questions of rules referred to them
• To investigate at they think proper all questions of ethics and unethical conduct referred to them
• To refer to Council all cases in which they consider disciplinary action should be taken
• To draw up a schedule of actions and behaviour considered to be unethical

Following the adoption of new Articles of Asssociation at the AGM of 2024, the work of the former L&E committee will be split into two standing committees of the board - the Conduct Committee and the Regulation Committee

Last Updated 21st January 2026