Private Education Act 2009 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3 · Regulation of Private Education Institutions
20. Remedial measures in relation to advertisements
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Without limiting section 32, where any person has issued or published, or caused to be issued or published, any advertisement in contravention of section 16(12) or 19, the Agency may direct the person to do all or any of the following at the person’s cost and expense:
advertisement
“advertisement” includes any notice, circular, pamphlet, brochure, prospectus, programme or other document, and any announcement, notification or intimation, to the public or any section thereof or to any person or persons, made —(a)orally or in writing;(b)by means of any poster, placard, notice or other document affixed, posted or displayed on any wall, billboard or hoarding or on any other object or thing;(c)by means of sound broadcast, television, the Internet or other media; or(d)in any other form or manner whatsoever;
take all practicable steps to withdraw the advertisement;
modify the advertisement in the manner that may be specified or approved by the Agency;
cease the issue or publication of any other advertisement which is wholly or substantially the same as the firstmentioned advertisement;
issue or publish, or cause to be issued or published, a corrective advertisement in the manner and containing the information that may be specified or approved by the Agency.
The person to whom the Agency has issued a direction under subsection (1) must bear all costs and expenses arising from complying with the direction.
Agency
“Agency” means the SkillsFuture Singapore Agency established by section 3 of the SkillsFuture Singapore Agency Act 2016;
Where the person to whom the Agency has issued a direction under subsection (1) fails to comply with the direction, the Agency may take any steps that it thinks reasonable and necessary to give effect to the direction and recover all costs and expenses reasonably incurred by it in so doing from that person as a civil debt due to the Agency.
Any person who contravenes any direction of the Agency issued under subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence.[47