The member, a secondary school music teacher, pleaded guilty to professional misconduct for engaging in an inappropriate relationship with a 16-to-17-year-old female student.
The relationship involved inappropriate physical contact, spending time alone off school premises, and sending romantic and intimate communications.
The Discipline Committee accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering a 12-month suspension of the member's certificate of qualification and registration, along with mandatory instruction on appropriate student-teacher boundaries and a practitioner's report confirming his fitness to return to teaching.
