No. S 349
Education Endowment Scheme Act
(Chapter 87A)
Education Endowment Scheme (Good Progress Awards) (Amendment) Regulations 1999
In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 6 (1)(d) and 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 (Good Progress Awards) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 and shall come into operation on 1st October 1999.
Amendment of regulation 5
2.  Regulation 5 of the Education Endowment Scheme (Good Progress Awards) Regulations (Rg 7) is amended —
(a)by deleting sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (1)(b) and substituting the following sub-paragraph:
(i)has obtained the qualifying gain in rank;”;
(b)by deleting sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (1)(c) and substituting the following sub-paragraph:
(i)has obtained the qualifying gain in rank;”;
(c)by deleting sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (1)(d) and substituting the following sub-paragraph:
(i)has obtained the qualifying gain in rank;”;
(d)by deleting paragraph (7); and
(e)by inserting, immediately after paragraph (8), the following paragraph:
(9)  For the purposes of this regulation —
“gain in rank” means the difference between any pupil’s ranking in the relevant examinations conducted in that year and that pupil’s ranking in the relevant examinations conducted in the previous year;
“qualifying gain in rank” means the gain in rank by any pupil who falls within the 10% of all pupils —
(a)in the same standard in a primary or secondary school who have obtained the highest gains in rank in that year;
(b)reading the same course at the same level in a junior college who have obtained the highest gains in rank in that year; or
(c)reading the same course at the same level in a training institute who have obtained the highest gains in rank in that year,
as the case may be.”.

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]