Early Childhood Development Centres (Amendment) Regulations 2019

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 14 Feb 2019

No. S 86

Early Childhood Development Centres Act 2017

(ACT 19 OF 2017)

Early Childhood Development Centres
(Amendment) Regulations 2019

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 51 of the Early Childhood Development Centres Act 2017, the Minister for Social and Family Development makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Early Childhood Development Centres (Amendment) Regulations 2019 and come into operation on 15 February 2019.

Amendment of regulation 42

2. Regulation 42 of the Early Childhood Development Centres Regulations 2018 (G.N. No. S 890/2018) is amended by deleting paragraph (1).

Amendment of regulation 48

3. Regulation 48 of the Early Childhood Development Centres Regulations 2018 is amended —

(a)

by deleting paragraph (1) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(1) Despite regulations 44 to 47, at any time when there is any child present at a licensee’s centre during its programme hours, the licensee must ensure that at that time —

(a)

where the number of children present at the centre is —

(i)	150 or less, the number of members of the licensee’s staff who have obtained the Child First Aid Accreditation certification and are present at the centre is not less than 3; or
(ii)	more than 150, the ratio of members of the licensee’s staff who have obtained the Child First Aid Accreditation certification and are present at the centre to children present at the centre is not less than 1:50; and

(b)

one of the members of the licensee’s staff who have obtained the Child First Aid Accreditation certification and are present at the centre —

(i)	is the principal; or
(ii)	where the principal is not present at the centre, is appointed to carry out principal supervisory duties in the absence of the principal.”; and

(b)

by inserting, immediately after the words “any child” in paragraph (2), the word “present”.

Made on 13 February 2019.

CHEW HOCK YONG

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Social and Family Development,
Singapore.

[ECDA 01-03-08; AG/LEGIS/SL/84B/2015/1 Vol. 5]

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