Education Act 1957 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 7 · Management of Schools — Supervisors and Managers
33. Grounds for refusal to register a manager
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The Director-General may in his discretion refuse to register any person as a manager of a school if —
the person has been convicted before any court of competent jurisdiction in Singapore or in Malaysia or in any part of the Commonwealth, of an offence punishable with imprisonment or of an offence under this Act or under any previous written law relating to education or the registration of schools or under any similar law in force at any time in Malaysia;
the person has previously been refused registration as a manager under either this Act or any previous written law relating to education or the registration of schools or any similar law in force at any time in Malaysia, or having been so registered has had his registration cancelled;
the person is not of good character;
the person has not the experience, knowledge, interest and skill to manage a school;
school
“school” means according to the context —(a)an organisation for the provision of education for 10 or more persons; or(b)a place where 10 or more persons are being or are habitually taught whether in one or more classes, or in the case of a correspondence school, the place or places where instruction is prepared or where answers are examined or corrected;
the person has at any time under any written law made a statement false or misleading in a material particular in an application for registration as manager or teacher; or
teacher
“teacher” means a person who teaches pupils in a school or who prepares or issues lessons or corrects written answers in a correspondence school and includes a principal;
it will be prejudicial to the interests of Singapore or of the public or of the pupils of the school that the person should be so registered.