5. Participation in prescribed dispute resolution schemes

Every registered private education institution must participate in the dispute resolution schemes.

Every registered private education institution must comply with the terms and conditions of the dispute resolution schemes set out in the Third Schedule.

Despite paragraph (1), where a registered private education institution has not entered into a written agreement or contract with a student-inmate enrolled in a YRSG-sponsored course provided by the registered private education institution (as mentioned in regulation 25(6B) of the Private Education Regulations 2009 (G.N. No. S 617/2009)), the registered private education institution need not participate in any dispute resolution proceeding commenced by the student-inmate in respect of the YRSG-sponsored course.

If, however, a registered private education institution chooses to participate in a dispute resolution proceeding commenced by a student-inmate, the registered private education institution must comply with the terms and conditions of the dispute resolution scheme set out in the Third Schedule.

In this regulation —

“student-inmate” means a student —

who is an inmate or a prisoner, as defined in section 2 of the Singapore Corporation of Rehabilitative Enterprises Act 1975; and

for whom the YRSG agrees to pay the course money for enrolment of the student in a registered private education institution under a written agreement or contract between the YRSG and the registered private education institution;