Singapore legislation

Section 25

of Early Childhood Development Centres Act 2017

Section 25

Grant of approval

(1)

In determining whether to grant approval for a licensee to perform, or for an individual to be deployed to perform, any prescribed duty or prescribed class of duties at an early childhood development centre, the Chief Licensing Officer must have regard to, and give such weight as the Chief Licensing Officer considers appropriate to, all of the following matters:

(a)

whether the licensee or individual has the requisite professional expertise and qualifications to perform the prescribed duty or duties or prescribed class or classes of duties for which approval is sought;

(b)

whether the licensee or individual has the appropriate character and fitness;

(c)

whether the licensee or individual has been —

(i)

convicted of an offence under this Act;

(ii)

convicted, whether in Singapore or elsewhere, of an offence involving dishonesty or the conviction for which involved a finding that the licensee or individual (as the case may be) had acted dishonestly; or

(iii)

convicted of a prescribed offence, whether the offence was committed before, on or after the date the offence is prescribed;

(d)

whether there is any other relevant matter that makes it contrary to the public interest to grant approval.

(2)

For the purpose of determining whether a licensee or an individual has the requisite professional expertise and qualifications under subsection (1)(a), the Chief Licensing Officer must have regard to, and give such weight as the Chief Licensing Officer considers appropriate to, all of the following matters:

(a)

whether the licensee or individual possesses such academic and language qualifications as the Chief Licensing Officer may specify;

(b)

whether the licensee or individual has completed such training, or passed such course or courses, as the Chief Licensing Officer may specify;

(c)

whether the licensee or individual has such working experience as the Chief Licensing Officer may specify.

(3)

For the purpose of determining whether a licensee or an individual has the appropriate character and fitness under subsection (1)(b), the Chief Licensing Officer must take into account the prescribed considerations (if prescribed).

(4)

To avoid doubt, the Chief Licensing Officer is not confined to consideration of the matters in subsection (1) or prescribed under subsection (3) and may take into account such other matters and evidence as may be relevant.

(5)

An approval granted under this section for a licensee to perform, or for an individual to be deployed to perform, any prescribed duty or prescribed class of duties at an early childhood development centre —

(a)

is for the prescribed duty or duties or the prescribed class or classes of duties for which the approval is sought; and

(b)

ceases when the licensee or individual (as the case may be) ceases to perform at that centre the prescribed duty or duties or the prescribed class or classes of duties for which the approval is granted.

(6)

To avoid doubt, if —

(a)

the licensee intends to perform a duty or a class of duties; or

(b)

the licensee intends to deploy an individual to perform a duty or a class of duties,that is different from that for which approval is granted, a fresh application for approval must be made to the Chief Licensing Officer.

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