Section 701.6. Persons allowed before the Board

(a) The Board may require in any case that a power of attorney, signed and executed by the petitioner or claimant, be filed with the Board before recognizing any person or persons as representing the petitioner or claimant.

(b) Only an attorney at law representing any petitioner or other applicant in any proceeding before the Board, or an applicant acting in his own behalf, shall be permitted to raise any legal question in any petition or application filed with the Board or to argue or discuss any legal questions at a hearing before said Board.

(c) The Board, for cause shown to it, may deny temporarily or permanently the privilege of practicing before it in any capacity to any person who is found, after notice and due hearing:

(1) Not to possess the requisite qualifications to represent others before the Board.

(2) To be guilty of a breach of the appropriate professional Canon of Ethics with respect to any matter before the Board.

(3) To have knowingly falsified any information or representation made to the Board.

(4) To have been guilty of any acts before the Board which demonstrate incompetence, bad faith, or dishonesty.

(5) To represent any person before the Board where such representation constitutes a conflict of interest.

(6) To have used confidential information obtained as or from an employe of the Commonwealth in representing a client before the Board.

(7) To otherwise have engaged in unethical or improper conduct before the Board.