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Private Education Act 2009 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3 · Regulation of Private Education Institutions

13. Power to direct change of name

Amended

Last amended by an amending law of 2019. 2 amendments in all.

(1)

Despite anything in this Act, the Agency may direct a registered private education institution to change its name, or the name of any premises or school (or any department or faculty thereof) of or education provided by the private education institution, to any new name that the Agency may approve under section 12 where the Agency is satisfied that the private education institution has been registered (whether through inadvertence or otherwise and whether before, on or after 21 December 2009) by a name, or the name of the premises or school (or a department or faculty thereof) or education bears a name —

(a)

which is referred to in section 10(1)(h); or

(b)

the use of which has been restrained by an injunction granted under the Trade Marks Act 1998.

(2)

The registered private education institution to whom a direction under subsection (1) is given must comply with the direction within 6 weeks after the date of the direction, or any longer period that the Agency may allow in any particular case, unless the direction is earlier annulled by the Minister.

(3)

Any registered private education institution which contravenes subsection (2) shall be guilty of an offence.

(4)

To avoid doubt, the Agency must accept as correct any decision of the General Division of the High Court to grant an injunction referred to in subsection (1)(b).[40