[3rd January 1958]
ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS Regulation 1. Citation 2. Definitions 3. Exemption 4. Extent of operation PART I PRELIMINARY PART II MANAGEMENT 5. Constitution of school PART III STAFF 6. Appointment and dismissal of staff 7. Responsibilities of principal 8. Appointment of principal 9. No teacher to be appointed without Director-General’s approval 10. Director-General may refuse to approve teachers unqualified for particular work 11. Teacher on appointment to deposit certificate of registration with supervisor 12. Director-General to endorse and return teacher’s certificate of registration and forward duplicate to supervisor 13. Letters of appointment 14. Payment of salaries 15. Supervisor to inform Director-General of termination of a teacher’s services and to forward duplicate of certificate of registration or authority to teach. Director-General to endorse certificate of registration PART IV MINIMUM EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS FOR REGISTRATION OF TEACHERS Regulation 16. Minimum qualifications for registration as teacher PART V REQUIREMENTS FOR SCHOOL BUILDINGS 17. Plan to be approved by Director-General, medical officer and Commissioner of Civil Defence 18. No structural alteration without approval of Director-General 19. Exits from schools 20. Proportion of external openings to floor space 21. Height of ceilings 22. Each classroom to have 2 doors 23. Director-General may require alterations PART VI ROOF-PLAYGROUNDS 24. Director-General’s consent required 25. Certificate of stability required 26. Certificate of Inspector of Schools to be exhibited 27. Protective barriers 28. Supervision of children 29. Director-General may prohibit use PART VII CLASSROOM ACCOMMODATION AND EQUIPMENT 30. Identification notice 31. Maximum accommodation 32. Accommodation certificate 33. Maximum size of class 34. Attendance register 35. Use of classroom 36. Desks and seats 37. Chalkboards 38. Other equipment 39. Artificial lighting Regulation 40. Partitions PART VIII SCHOOL WORKSHOPS AND SCIENCE LABORATORIES 41. Safety precautions 42. Plan of layout 43. Consent for installation 44. Remote control switches 45. Maintenance and suitability 46. Windows of workshops 47. Placing of machines 48. Storage of poisons and dangerous chemicals 49. Containers to be marked 50. Teacher in laboratory to have unobstructed view of pupils PART IX HEALTH 51. Lavatories 52. Improvements to sanitation 53. Water supply 54. Washing facilities 55. Cleanliness of premises 56. Smoking 57. Spitting 58. Food sold on premises 59. Food vendors 60. Medical inspection of premises 61. Medical examination of pupils 62. Infectious diseases to be reported 63. Exclusion of persons suffering from infectious disease and contacts 64. X-ray examination 65. First-aid equipment PART X ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR BOARDING SCHOOLS 66. Dormitory accommodation 67. Accommodation certificate Regulation 68. Cleansing of dormitories 69. Washing, sanitary and messing accommodation 70. Sick room 71. Appointment of matron 72. Medical examination PART XI FIRE PRECAUTIONS 73. Fire precautions 74. Singapore Civil Defence Force officers to report to Director- General 75. Safety equipment against fire 76. Scheme for orderly evacuation of building in case of fire 77. Fire drill 78. Exits to be unobstructed PART XII SYLLABUSES, TIMETABLES, SCHOOL HOURS, WORKING DAYS AND HOLIDAYS 79. Syllabuses to be approved by Director-General 80. Timetables 81. School hours 82. Terms and holidays PART XIII DISCIPLINE 83. Principal responsible for discipline 84. Supervisor to support disciplinary measures of principal 85. Pupils not to remain in premises after regular hours 86. Police to be called in if pupils refuse to leave premises 87. Pupils to be dismissed for disorderly conduct and subversive propaganda, etc. 88. Corporal punishment 88A. Application of this Part Regulation PART XIV MONEYS COLLECTED FROM PUPILS 89. Definitions 90. School Fund 91. Collection of moneys in a Government and Government-aided school 92. Collection of other moneys 93. Examination fees collected from private candidates 94. Director-General must approve fees 95. Approved fees to be published in Gazette 96. Statement of fees to be displayed in school 97. Method of collection of fees 98. Formal receipts 99. Accounting for fees received from pupils PART XV OUTSIDE COLLECTIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS 100. List of subscribers to be submitted to Director-General each year 101. School may collect subscriptions from managers and subscribers but from no others except with written sanction of Director- General 102. Applications for such permission 103. Director-General may withhold sanction 104. Director-General may impose limitations 105. Director-General to sign collection books and lists 106. Director-General to scrutinise accounts and order disposal of balances 107. Requirements of other written laws to be complied with PART XVI SCHOOL GENERAL ACCOUNTS 108. Accounts to be kept and produced to Director-General PART XVII USE OF SCHOOL PREMISES 109. Approval of Director-General required for inspections, etc., on school premises Regulation 110. Director-General to approve use of premises other than for ordinary conduct of school PART XVIII POLITICAL PROPAGANDA IN SCHOOLS 111. No political teaching or activities detrimental to Singapore permitted PART XIX CONTROL OF BOOKS TO BE USED IN SCHOOL 112. Minister may prohibit importation of text-books 113. Director-General may prohibit use of book PART XX GENERAL 114. School name to be displayed 115. Refusal to register 116. Limitation of number of pupils 117. Leaving certificates 118. Returns PART XXI APPEALS 119. Appeals
premises submitted upon application for registration of a school and approved by the Director-General, the Commissioner of Public Health, and the Commissioner of Civil Defence and, if the Director-General subsequently approves a plan or diagram under these Regulations, includes such subsequent plan or diagram; “autonomous school” means a Government school or Government-aided school which is granted such degree of autonomy over its administration and curriculum as the Minister may determine; [S 896/2023 wef 01/01/2024] “boarder” means a pupil of a boarding school for whom housing or lodging accommodation is provided; “boarding school” means a school in connection with which hostels, dormitories or other rooms or premises are provided for the housing or lodging of some or all of the pupils of that school out of school hours, whether the hostels, dormitories or other rooms or premises are in or part of the same building or group of buildings as the classrooms or not; “classroom” means any room in a school used for teaching purposes; “contagious disease” means venereal disease, scabies and any other disease which the Minister by notification in the Gazette declares to be a contagious disease for the purpose of these Regulations; “dormitory” means any room provided as sleeping accommodation for boarders; “full-time primary school” means a school which claims to give to children of normal primary school age a complete primary education of the general type given in Government schools for such children; “full-time secondary school” means a school which claims to give children of normal secondary school age a complete secondary education of the general type given in Government schools for such children; “infectious disease” means any of the diseases specified in the First Schedule to the Infectious Diseases Act (Cap. 137); “medical officer” means a medical officer of schools appointed under section 51(b) of the Act; “qualification” means evidence of having attained a stated level of education or proficiency; “school workshop” means any place in a school where instruction is given in the use of tools or machinery or where tools or machines are used for the repair, adjustment or manufacture of articles, or for training students for any trade or commercial occupation; “science laboratory” means any place in a school where practical experiments or demonstrations in science subjects are carried out and includes any place where instruction is given in domestic science or homecraft; “staff” includes the principal and all the teachers of a school; “subscriber” means any person who agrees to subscribe regularly to the funds of a school.
schools.
Every such constitution, written scheme or deed of trust shall, unless the Director-General otherwise directs — (a) provide for the election of managers at stated periods; (b) define the powers and duties of the managers, specify the times and places at which meetings of the committee of management shall be held and provide for the voting and procedure at the meetings, the keeping of the minutes and records thereof and any quorum which may be required; (c) define severally the powers and duties of the supervisor, of each of the other managers and of the principal; (d) provide for the holding and administration of the property of the school, the collection, banking and administration of its revenue and the proper keeping and audit of its accounts; and (e) provide for such matters in relation to the management of the school and the administration of the property and revenue of the school as the Director-General may specify in such notice.
The Director-General may require by notice in writing such alteration of any constitution, written scheme or deed of trust submitted for his approval as he may think fit.
Every such constitution, written scheme or deed of trust when approved by the Director-General shall be binding upon the supervisor, managers and teachers of the school and shall not be altered or amended without the prior approval in writing of the Director-General.
The Director-General may subsequently require by notice to the supervisor any such constitution, written scheme or deed of trust to be altered or amended in such manner as he may specify, and such constitution, written scheme or deed of trust shall be altered or amended accordingly by the managers.
The supervisor of any school may within 14 days of the receipt of a notice under paragraph (3) or (5) appeal against the decision of the Director-General to the Appeals Board in the manner laid down in Part XII of the Act.
Any supervisor, manager or teacher who contravenes or fails to comply with or abets any contravention of this regulation or of the constitution, written scheme or deed of trust after its approval or of any alteration or amendment to the constitution, written scheme or deed of trust made in accordance with this regulation shall be guilty of an offence under the Act and shall be liable on conviction to the penalties prescribed therein.
the school.
The Director-General may in his discretion refuse to approve the appointment as the principal of a school any person whom he considers unsuitable.
The Director-General may by notice in writing to the supervisor require the committee of management of any school to replace the principal if the Director-General considers that the principal is not satisfactorily carrying out the duties of his office.
respectively of the Act.
(a) the conditions of service; (b) the salary scale; and (c) the conditions upon which the appointment may be terminated.
On receipt of the duplicate of the certificate of registration, the Director-General shall endorse it with the date of the termination of appointment and shall retain it until the teacher with respect to whom it has been issued is appointed to another school.
MINIMUM EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS FOR REGISTRATION OF TEACHERS
(a) where the medium is English, the Cambridge Overseas ‘O’ level School Certificate with a pass in oral English or such other qualifications as the Director-General shall consider its equivalent; (b) where the medium is Chinese, the Certificate of the Government Senior Middle III Examination or Government Senior Normal Examination or such other qualifications as the Director-General shall consider their equivalent; (c) where the medium is Malay, either the Malaya Certificate of Education with passes in Malay language and Malay literature or the Cambridge School Certificate with a credit in Malay, or the Certificate of the Sultan Idris Training College or, of the Malay Women’s Training College Malacca or the Certificate known as “Trained Under Other Schemes (T.U.O.S.)”, or the Standard VII Certificate in Malay of a Malay School in Singapore or Malaysia or such other qualifications as the Director-General shall consider their equivalent; and (d) where the medium is Tamil, either the Malaya Certificate of Education with passes in Tamil language and Tamil literature or a Cambridge School Certificate with a credit in Tamil or the Indian Secondary School Leaving Certificate (Tamil) or the Certificate known as “Trained Under Other Schemes (T.U.O.S.)”, or the Standard VII Certificate of a Tamil School in Singapore or Malaysia or such other qualifications as the Director-General shall consider their equivalent: Provided that the Director-General may at his discretion require such additional qualifications as he considers necessary for the teaching of a particular subject in a particular school.
REQUIREMENTS FOR SCHOOL BUILDINGS
When any such alterations have been approved by the Director- General, the supervisor shall submit new plans or diagrams of the school premises in which such alterations shall be shown.
Every storey of a school building which accommodates more than 20 pupils shall have 2 staircases of adequate width.
The Director-General may at his discretion require the enlargement of the existing means of exit or the provision of additional means of exit or additional staircases in a school building.
ROOF-PLAYGROUNDS
may be allowed to use the playground at any one time.
There shall not be more than 60 pupils upon any roof- playground under the charge of one teacher at any one time.
CLASSROOM ACCOMMODATION AND EQUIPMENT
number or letter for such room. This number or letter shall correspond to the number or letter on the approved plan.
The Director-General may further restrict the number of pupils taught at one time by one teacher if the Director-General considers that the restriction is desirable for the type of instruction given.
already in use.
Unless the Director-General otherwise directs, the supervisor shall cause the desks and seats to be so arranged that the light falls from the pupils’ left.
Except as may arise from the grouping of pupils around tables, no pupil shall be seated so as to face a window or other external opening facing the open sky or through which light is reflected from a bright surface.
The Director-General may, by notice in writing, require the supervisor of any school to cause to be replaced or resurfaced any chalkboard which in the opinion of the Director-General requires to be so replaced or resurfaced.
Provided that the Director-General shall not require to be provided any articles of equipment which are not normal articles of equipment for providing the same sort of instruction in Government schools.
SCHOOL WORKSHOPS AND SCIENCE LABORATORIES
The principal shall ensure that no instruction is given in the use of tools or the operation of machines or in science experiments except by a teacher competent to give the type of instruction concerned.
space of the workshop.
In schools with mixed enrolment separate lavatories shall be provided for each sex with adequately screened approaches.
Lavatory accommodation in every school shall be provided as follows: (a) for boy pupils: One water-closet for every 50 pupils up to a total of 200 pupils; one water-closet for every 100 pupils in excess of 200; plus 1.8 metres of trough urinal for every 100 pupils; and (b) for girl pupils: One water-closet for every 25 pupils up to a total of 100 pupils; one water-closet for every 30 pupils of the next 150 pupils; and one water-closet for every 50 pupils in excess of 250 pupils.
Urinals in a school shall be faced to a height of 1.2 metres with tiles or such other impervious material as the medical officer may approve.
Where a water carriage system is not installed in a school, lavatories shall be in a separate building at least 9 metres distant from the school building.
Except as the Director-General otherwise permits, separate lavatory accommodation shall be provided for the staff in every school.
Lavatories in a school shall at all times be kept in a clean and sanitary condition.
Lavatories in a school shall not be used for any other purpose.
Such improvements may at the discretion of the Director- General include the installation of a water carriage system.
The supervisor shall increase or improve the water supply of a school to the extent which the Director-General may at any time require by notice in writing and within the period specified in the notice.
The supervisor shall, if so required by the Director-General by notice in writing, cause the whole or any part of the school premises to be suitably colour-washed or repainted.
All persons engaged in the preparation and sale of food in school premises shall take such steps as may be reasonably necessary to protect it from contamination.
Newspaper shall not be used as a wrapping material for food sold on school premises except as an outer cover in addition to an inner wrapping.
Food for sale on school premises shall be kept at least 46 centimetres from the ground and shall be protected by fly proof covers.
No ice-cream shall be offered for sale on school premises unless it was prepared on premises licensed for the purpose.
No ice which has been kept in sawdust shall be placed in or on any food offered for sale on school premises.
Persons so engaged shall submit at least once a year to such medical examination including X-ray examination as may be required by a medical officer.
Any person so engaged who is found to be suffering from an infectious or contagious disease shall be immediately excluded from the school.
All persons while so engaged shall wear clean overalls or aprons.
No person while so engaged shall spit, smoke, take snuff or chew any substance.
Provided that girls over the age of 10 years shall not be examined by a male person except with their consent and with the consent of the principal.
If on such examination a medical officer or any such authorised person is of the opinion that the person or clothing of any such child is infected with vermin or in a foul or filthy condition, he may give notice in writing to the supervisor requiring him to exclude the child from the school until such time as the person and clothing of the child have been cleansed to the satisfaction of the medical officer or the authorised person and the supervisor shall exclude the pupil accordingly.
The principal shall report at once to a medical officer any suspected or known case of infectious or contagious disease amongst teachers or pupils or when the principal knows or suspects that any of his pupils or teachers have been in contact with a case of infectious disease.
The Director-General may at any time require a registered teacher to present himself for examination to a medical officer or to any medical practitioner approved by the Director-General and the supervisor if required by the Director-General shall cause the teacher to be excluded from the school until the examination has taken place and until a medical officer has certified that the teacher may be permitted to return.
No supervisor, manager or teacher shall knowingly admit to the school in respect of which he is registered any teacher or pupil excluded from any other school under paragraphs (1) and (2) during the period of such exclusion.
If in any school there has been reported or found a case of infectious or contagious disease amongst the teachers, pupils or employees of that school, the Director-General may on the advice of a medical officer order the closure of that school for such period as he may consider necessary.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR BOARDING SCHOOLS
No dormitory shall be in a tenement-house.
In every boarding school the dormitory accommodation shall be of such adequate standard and so maintained as to satisfy the reasonable requirements of the Director-General.
persons to be accommodated in that room at any one time. No person other than the Director-General or an Inspector of Schools shall remove, deface, cancel or alter such certificate.
No more than the maximum number of persons as set out in such certificate shall be permitted to occupy any dormitory or room used as such without the written sanction of the Director-General.
The supervisor shall send a copy of every such report to the Director-General.
FIRE PRECAUTIONS
The principal of every school shall ensure that all safety equipment so installed is maintained in good order and ready for instant use.
employees of the school, at least once a term to practise the scheme referred to in regulation 76 and shall on each occasion record the date, the time taken for the complete evacuation of the school building and anything suggesting a need to modify the scheme.
SYLLABUSES, TIMETABLES, SCHOOL HOURS, WORKING DAYS AND HOLIDAYS
The supervisor of every school shall submit to the Director- General whenever so required the syllabus of instruction of each class in the school for his approval.
The Director-General may require such amendments to be made in the syllabus as he may think fit.
No alteration shall be made in any approved syllabus without the consent of the Director-General.
A copy of the timetable of each class shall be displayed in the classroom it normally occupies.
(a) 20 hours per week during the first year of the primary course; (b) 22½ hours per week during the second, third and fourth years of the primary course; or (c) 24¾ hours per week in the subsequent years of the primary course and in the secondary course.
The supervisor of every school shall submit to the Director- General at least 14 days before the beginning of every school year a statement of the proposed school terms and vacations together with the dates of proposed additional holidays falling within the school terms proposed.
The Director-General may by notice in writing to the supervisor of any school require such alterations in the length of the school terms proposed by the school as the Director-General may consider advisable in the interests of the pupils.
The Director-General may by notice in writing to the supervisor of any school prohibit the granting of a holiday on any particular day and the supervisor shall thereupon ensure that the normal work of the school shall be continued on that day.
The Director-General may by notice in writing to the supervisor of any school require the school to observe a holiday on any day specified in the notice and the supervisor shall thereupon ensure that the holiday shall be observed.
school whether on the school premises or off the school premises in such circumstances as to permit the pupils to be identified as pupils of the school.
(a) pupils participating in any unlawful or disorderly assembly; (b) pupils participating in any dispute between employers and employees; (c) pupils carrying on subversive propaganda whether on or off the school premises; or (d) pupils resisting school discipline.
The corporal punishment of boy pupils shall be administered with a light cane on the palms of the hands or on the buttocks over the clothing. No other form of corporal punishment shall be administered to boy pupils.
Where there is more than one teacher in a school, corporal punishment shall be inflicted by the principal only or under his express authority.
This Part shall also apply to any Government school.
MONEYS COLLECTED FROM PUPILS
“Consolidated Fund” means the Consolidated Fund established under the Constitution of the Republic of Singapore; “Government-aided school” means a private school receiving a grant from the Government; “national examinations” has the same meaning as in the Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board Act (Cap. 299A); “School Fund” means the School Fund established under regulation 90; “Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board” means the Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board established under section 3 of the Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board Act.
(1A) The Director-General may authorise the principal of any Government or Government-aided school or any cluster superintendent to assist him in the administration of the School Fund. (1B) Every principal or cluster superintendent authorised by the Director-General to administer the School Fund under paragraph (1A) shall, with respect to that part of the School Fund he is authorised to administer — (a) perform such duties and cause such records and accounts to be kept and rendered as may be prescribed by these Regulations or by instructions issued by the Director- General or the Government in matters of financial and accounting procedures; and (b) comply with such other directions as the Director-General or the Government may issue from time to time. (c) [Deleted by S 252/2003 wef 19/05/2003] (1C) If it appears to the Director-General that any principal or cluster superintendent who is not in the employment of the Government but who is authorised by the Director-General to administer the School Fund under paragraph (1A) — (a) has failed to collect any moneys owing to the School Fund the collection of which he was responsible for; (b) is responsible for any improper payment of moneys from the School Fund or for any payment of such moneys which was not duly vouched; or (c) is responsible for any deficiency in any moneys in the School Fund, the Director-General shall require the principal or cluster superintendent to furnish an explanation for the matter referred to in sub‑paragraph (a), (b) or (c), as the case may be, within the period specified by the Director-General. (1D) If a satisfactory explanation is not furnished to the Director- General within the period specified by him under paragraph (1C), the Director-General may appoint a committee to inquire into the matter and to submit a report to him. (1E) The committee referred to in paragraph (1D) shall consist of — (a) a public officer appointed by the Director-General; (b) a person appointed by the employer of the principal or cluster superintendent concerned; and (c) a person, not being a public officer or an employee of the employer referred to in sub‑paragraph (b), appointed jointly by the Director-General and the employer referred to in sub‑paragraph (b). (1F) The Director-General may, upon considering the report of the committee referred to in paragraph (1D), surcharge against the principal or cluster superintendent concerned the whole or such proportion as the Director-General thinks fit of any amount not collected, improper payment or deficiency, as the case may be. (1G) The Director-General may at any time withdraw any surcharge in respect of which a satisfactory explanation has been received or if it otherwise appears that no surcharge should have been made. (1H) The amount of any surcharge made under paragraph (1F) and not withdrawn under paragraph (1G) shall be a debt due to the Government from the person against whom the surcharge is made and may be sued for and recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction at the suit of the Government. (1I) The Director-General may direct that the amount of any surcharge shall be recovered by equal monthly instalments by deductions from the salary of the person against whom the surcharge is made in amounts not exceeding one-fourth of the total monthly salary of such person.
Any interest accruing to the moneys in the School Fund shall be retained in the School Fund and used for the benefit of pupils and the advancement of education.
[Deleted by S 140/2004]
For the purposes of this rule, “cluster superintendent” means any person who has been designated by the Director-General to perform supervisory and advisory functions over a group of schools in a cluster.
(a) school fees; (b) tuition and registration fees; (c) miscellaneous fees; [S 896/2023 wef 01/01/2024] (ca) where the school is an autonomous school, autonomous school fees; [S 896/2023 wef 01/01/2024] (d) examination fees in respect of any of the national examinations, for and on behalf of the Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board; (e) miscellaneous payments for text-books, school magazines, educational publications, report books, stationery, concerts, educational visits and tours, uniforms, school badges and ties and other articles normally used by pupils; and (f) [Deleted by S 493/92 wef 01/01/1993] (g) such other fees or payments as may be approved by the Director-General from time to time.
The fees collected under paragraph (1)(a) from pupils in a Government school shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund.
The fees collected under paragraph (1)(a) from pupils in a Government-aided school may be retained by the school for the purpose of meeting the expenses of maintaining the school.
The fees collected under paragraph (1)(b) shall, in the case where the tutorial classes are held — (a) in a Government-aided school, be retained by the school to meet the allowances payable to the supervisor and the teachers of those classes; and (b) in a Government school, be paid into the Consolidated Fund.
The moneys collected under paragraphs (1)(c), (ca), (e) and (g) shall be paid into the School Fund and shall be used for the purposes for which they are collected. [S 896/2023 wef 01/01/2024]
The fees collected under paragraph (1)(d) shall be paid to the Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board.
[Deleted by S 493/92 wef 01/01/1993]
national examinations shall be paid to the Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board.
No change in the nature or amount of these fees shall be made without the approval of the Director-General. Approved fees to be published in Gazette
(a) in 12 equal payments collected on or after the first school day of each month of the calendar year; or (b) in 10 equal payments collected on or after the first school day of each of the months January to October inclusive: Provided that where the whole of a month is contained in a holiday the approved monthly fee for that month may be collected during the last week of the previous term.
in writing by the supervisor, manager or teacher, respectively, on a proper form of receipt.
Every account book kept by the supervisor shall be preserved throughout the period of office of the principal who operates the account book or for a period of 5 years from the date of the last entry in such book, whichever is the longer.
All such accounts shall be made available at all times for scrutiny by an Inspector of Schools.
OUTSIDE COLLECTIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS
A list of such subscribers shall be submitted to the Director- General by the supervisor within one month of the beginning of each calendar year. Upon the application of the supervisor, the Director- General may, if he thinks fit from time to time during the year in which the list is current, add to the list the name of any person who notifies the supervisor that he wishes to be entered on the list.
No person whose name does not appear on the list shall in the year during which the list is current be deemed to be for the purposes of these Regulations a subscriber of the school.
The Director-General may require the applicant to give such further information as the Director-General may require about the finances and management of the school and the purposes and management of the proposed subscription.
administered or the school efficiently managed or where the Director- General considers that the persons in charge of the subscription are unsuitable or the estimated expenses unreasonable, or the object for which the subscription is to be raised is prejudicial to the interests of the pupils of the school or of the public generally.
school. The Director-General may decide what is to be considered a reasonable time in each case.
SCHOOL GENERAL ACCOUNTS
The Director-General may at any time require the supervisor of any school to furnish accounts, including those kept by the principal, audited by an auditor approved by the Director-General.
The supervisor shall, if so required, produce to the Director- General all books and documents relating to the accounts of the school including those kept by the principal, and the Director-General or an officer authorised by him may remove the books from the school premises to examine them in detail.
USE OF SCHOOL PREMISES
of the Director-General.
Application for such permission must be made at least 14 days before the date for which it is sought.
The Director-General may at his discretion issue by notice in writing permission for the regular use of school premises by particular bodies and such permission shall, subject to any restrictions specified in the notice, hold good until cancelled by a further notice in writing.
If he has reasonable cause to believe that the premises of any school are being used by any persons whatever for purposes other than the ordinary conduct of the school without his permission having been obtained for such use, the Director-General may enter the premises accompanied by such persons as he thinks expedient and take such action as he considers necessary to cause the person so offending against this regulation to leave the premises.
POLITICAL PROPAGANDA IN SCHOOLS
The use or display by teachers or pupils either upon the school premises or elsewhere upon the occasion of any school activity or combined schools activity of salutes, songs, dances, slogans, uniforms, flags or symbols which have a customarily political association shall be unlawful.
CONTROL OF BOOKS TO BE USED IN SCHOOL
Any person who imports, publishes, sells, offers for sale, buys, offers to buy, distributes, supplies, reproduces or without lawful excuse has in his possession any school text-book the importation of which has been prohibited by the Minister or any extract thereof shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $500 for a first offence or $1,000 for a second or subsequent offence.
No person shall use in or in connection with any school any book or other written or printed matter the use of which in schools has been prohibited by the Director-General or prohibited by the Minister under the provisions of any written law.
every school a board or other form of notice bearing in conspicuous Roman lettering the registered name of the school.
(a) in the case of orders, decisions or requirements under regulations 110 and 113 to the Minister; and (b) in all other cases to the Appeals Board established under the Act.
Notwithstanding the pendency of any appeal, a decision or requirement which is the subject of an appeal shall, unless the Director-General otherwise directs in writing, take effect on the date stated in the notice issued by the Director-General. [G.N. Nos. S 2/58; S 242/59; S (N.S.) 121/59; S 27/68; S 123/76; S 100/90; S 537/91; S 493/92; S 451/93; S 352/94; S 61/2002; S 208/2003; S 252/2003; S 140/2004] LEGISLATIVE HISTORY EDUCATION (SCHOOLS) REGULATIONS (CHAPTER 87, RG 1) This Legislative History is provided for the convenience of users of the Education (Schools) Regulations. It is not part of these Regulations.
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