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

18. Power to prohibit or restrict deployment of teachers

Amended

Last amended by an amending law of 2016.

(1)

The Agency may, at any time, direct a registered private education institution to cease to deploy any person to teach any course to all or any of the students of the registered private education institution if the Agency is satisfied that —

(a)

any information in respect of the person furnished to the Agency under this Act is false or misleading in a material particular or by reason of the omission of a material particular;

(b)

the person does not possess the minimum qualifications or experience, or fulfil any other criteria, that may be prescribed under section 17(1)(a) or is otherwise not competent to teach the course;

(c)

the person has misconducted himself or herself in his or her capacity as a teacher of the registered private education institution;

(d)

the person is contravening or has contravened this Act; or

(e)

the person is not a fit and proper person to teach in the registered private education institution.

(2)

Any registered private education institution which contravenes any direction of the Agency issued under subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence.[45