Education Endowment Scheme (Edusave Merit Bursaries) (Amendment) Regulations 2004

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 24 Aug 2004

No. S 500

Education Endowment Scheme Act

(Chapter 87A)

Education Endowment Scheme (Edusave Merit Bursaries) (Amendment) Regulations 2004

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.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Education Endowment Scheme (Edusave Merit Bursaries) (Amendment) Regulations 2004 and shall, with the exception of regulation 2(c), be deemed to have come into operation on 1st January 2004.

(2) Regulation 2(c) shall be deemed to have come into operation on 18th March 2004.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. Regulation 2 of the Education Endowment Scheme (Edusave Merit Bursaries) Regulations (Rg 5) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after the definition of “independent school”, the following definition:

“ “integrated programme” means an education programme which provides an integrated secondary and pre-university education;”;

(b)

by deleting the words “in a secondary school,” in paragraph (b) of the definition of “stream” and substituting the words “in a secondary school who is not enrolled in an integrated programme,”; and

(c)

by deleting the definition of “stream” and substituting the following definition:

“ “stream”, in relation to —

(a)	a pupil in a primary school; or
(b)	a pupil in a secondary school who is not enrolled in an integrated programme,

means any classification of pupils of his standard in the school in which he is enrolled according to such academic criteria as the Minister may determine;”.

Amendment of regulation 4

3. Regulation 4 (1) of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting sub-paragraphs (c) and (d) and substituting the following sub-paragraphs:

“(c)

$250, if awarded to any pupil undergoing secondary education —

(i)	in a secondary school; or
(ii)	in a junior college as part of an integrated programme;

(d)

$300, if awarded to any pupil undergoing pre-university education in a junior college; and”.

Amendment of regulation 5

4. Regulation 5 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “of a primary or secondary school” in paragraph (1)(c) and substituting the words “undergoing primary or secondary education”;

(b)

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

“(d)

in the case of a pupil undergoing pre-university education —

(i)	he has obtained the qualifying score;
(ii)	he has passed in that year the examinations for such pre-university courses as specified by the Ministry; and
(iii)	he is not in that year the recipient of any scholarship awarded by the Ministry to pupils undergoing pre-university education or the Good Progress Award established under the Education Endowment Scheme (Good Progress Awards) Regulations; or”; and

(c)

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 —

(a)

in the case of a pupil undergoing primary education, by any pupil standing among the 25% of all pupils in the same stream and standard in his primary school who have obtained the highest marks in the examinations conducted by that school in that year for pupils in that stream and standard;

(b)

in the case of a pupil undergoing secondary education who is not enrolled in any integrated programme, by any pupil standing among the 25% of all pupils in the same stream and standard in his secondary school —

(i)	who are not enrolled in any integrated programme; and
(ii)	who have obtained the highest marks in the examinations conducted by that school in that year for pupils in that stream and standard who are not enrolled in any integrated programme;

(c)

in the case of a pupil undergoing secondary education who is enrolled in an integrated programme in a secondary school or junior college, by any pupil standing among the 25% of all pupils in the same standard in that secondary school or junior college —

(i)	who are enrolled in the integrated programme; and
(ii)	who have obtained the highest marks in the examinations conducted by that school or junior college in that year for pupils in that standard in the integrated programme;

(d)

in the case of a pupil undergoing pre-university education, by any pupil standing among the 25% of all pupils reading the same course at the same level in his junior college who have obtained the highest marks in the examinations conducted by that junior college in that year for pupils reading that course at that level; or

(e)

in the case of a full-time pupil of a training institute, by any pupil standing among the 25% of all pupils reading the same course at the same level as full-time pupils of the training institute who have obtained the highest marks in the examinations conducted by that training institute in that year for pupils reading that course at that level,

as the case may be.”.

[G.N. No. S 681/2001]

Made this 18th day of August 2004.

LIM CHUAN POH

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Education,
Singapore.

[Edun S15-14-002 Vol. 10; AG/LEG/SL/87A/2002/1 Vol. 2]

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