Education Act 1957 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 11 · Inspection of Registered Schools and Examination of Unregistered Premises
55. Powers of Director-General and inspector in searching for unregistered schools
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The Director-General or any officer empowered under section 5(1) or any inspector of schools or any other person specially authorised in that behalf by the Director‑General may enter, accompanied by such persons as he may consider expedient and using force for that purpose if necessary, any house, building or other place which he has reasonable cause to believe is occupied by an unregistered school and may search for and seize and remove any document or other article which may appear to him to be the property of or to have been used in connection with the unregistered school.
For the purpose of any entry or search under this section the Director‑General or any officer empowered under section 5(1) or any inspector of schools or other authorised person under subsection (1) may break open any outer or inner door of the house, building or other place or any locked receptacle therein which he has reasonable cause to believe contains any document or other article which is the property of or has been used in connection with the unregistered 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;