Education Endowment Scheme (Edusave Scholarships) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 02 Aug 1999

No. S 350

Education Endowment Scheme Act

(Chapter 87A)

Education Endowment Scheme (Edusave Scholarships) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 24(a) of the Education Endowment Scheme Act, the Minister for Education hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Education Endowment Scheme (Edusave Scholarships) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 and shall come into operation on 1st October 1999.

Amendment of regulation 11

2. Regulation 11 of the Education Endowment Scheme (Edusave Scholarships) Regulations (Rg 2) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended —

(a)

by deleting paragraph (c) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(c)	who has obtained the qualifying score; and”; and

(b)

by renumbering the regulation as paragraph (1) of that regulation, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following paragraph:

“(2) For the purposes of this regulation, “qualifying score” means the lowest aggregate score which is obtained by any pupil standing among the 5% of all pupils in his standard who have obtained the highest aggregate scores in the examinations conducted by the independent school in which he is enrolled in that year for pupils in that standard.”.

Amendment of regulation 15

3. Regulation 15 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

by deleting sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (1) and substituting the following sub-paragraph:

“(b)	who has obtained the qualifying score.”; and

(b)

by deleting paragraph (2) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(2) For the purposes of this regulation, “qualifying score” means the lowest aggregate score which is obtained by any pupil standing among the 10% of all pupils in the same stream at the same standard who have obtained the highest aggregate scores in the examinations conducted by the Government secondary school or the Government-aided secondary school in which he is enrolled in that year for pupils in that stream and standard.”.

Amendment of regulation 19

4. Regulation 19 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

by deleting paragraph (b) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(b)	who has obtained the qualifying score.”; and

(b)

by renumbering the regulation as paragraph (1) of that regulation, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following paragraph:

“(2) For the purposes of this regulation, “qualifying score” means the lowest aggregate score which is obtained by any pupil standing among the 10% of all pupils in the same stream at the same standard who have obtained the highest aggregate scores in the examinations conducted by the primary school in which he is enrolled in that year for pupils in that stream and standard.”.

Made this 26th day of July 1999.

CHIANG CHIE FOO

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Education,
Singapore.

[EDUN S15-14-002 Vol. 8; AG/LEG/SL/87A/96/1 Vol. 1]

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