Singapore legislation

Clause 2

of Education Endowment and Savings Schemes (Amendment) Bill

Clause 2

Amendment of section 2

Section 2 of the Education Endowment and Savings Schemes Act (referred to in this Act as the principal Act) is amended —

(a)

by deleting the definition of “Board” in subsection (1);

(b)

by inserting, immediately after the definition of “Edusave Pupils Fund” in subsection (1), the following definitions:“ “Edusave Qualifying Ages” means the range of ages prescribed by regulations to be the Edusave Qualifying Ages;“Edusave Scheme Administrator” means the public officer appointed under section 7(2) by the Minister to administer the Edusave Pupils Fund on behalf of the Minister;”;

(c)

by inserting, immediately after the definition of “Endowment Fund” in subsection (1), the following definition:“ “junior college”, in relation to a member of the Edusave Pupils Fund, means any of the following which is not a prescribed school:

(a)

a junior college that is organised and conducted directly by the Government to provide full-time pre-university education;

(b)

a junior college that is established by a person other than the Government and is conducted by a committee of management in receipt of a grant-in-aid from the Government to defray the costs and expenses of conducting the junior college to provide full-time pre-university education;

(c)

a centralised institute that provides full‑time pre-university education;

(d)

such other educational institution providing full-time pre-university education that may be prescribed as a junior college;”;

(d)

by inserting, immediately after the definition of “parent” in subsection (1), the following definition:“ “prescribed school”, in relation to a member of the Edusave Pupils Fund, means —

(a)

an institution for providing full-time primary or secondary education, being —

(i)

a school organised and conducted directly by the Government;

(ii)

a school specified in any order made under section 3(1) of the School Boards (Incorporation) Act (Cap. 284A); or

(iii)

a school that is established by a person other than the Government and is conducted by a committee of management in receipt of a grant-in-aid from the Government to defray the costs and expenses of conducting the school; or

(b)

such other educational institution that may be prescribed as a prescribed school;”;

(e)

by deleting the definition of “school age” in subsection (1) and substituting the following definition:“ “schooling” means enrolled as a full-time student of a prescribed school or a junior college;”; and

(f)

by deleting subsections (2) and (3) and substituting the following subsection:“(2) For the purposes of this Act, the time at which an individual attains a particular age expressed in years is the relevant anniversary of the date of that individual’s birth, except that where an individual was born on 29 February in any year, then, in any subsequent year that is not a leap year, the anniversary of the birth of the individual shall be deemed to occur on 1 March of that subsequent year.”.