Education Endowment and Savings Schemes (Amount of Edusave Contribution for 2015) Order 2014

No. S 862

Education Endowment and Savings Schemes Act

(CHAPTER 87A)

Education Endowment and Savings Schemes
(Amount of Edusave Contribution for 2015)
Order 2014

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 9(5) of the Education Endowment and Savings Schemes Act, the Minister for Education hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Education Endowment and Savings Schemes (Amount of Edusave Contribution for 2015) Order 2014 and shall come into operation on 1 January 2015.

Qualifying date

2. For 2015, the qualifying date for all members of the Edusave Pupils Fund (except a first‑time member) is 1 January 2015.

2015 contribution for full‑time students

3. For 2015, the amount of contribution to be paid under section 9(1)(a) of the Act is —

(a)	$200 for each member who is a full‑time student of a prescribed school and receiving primary education at any time during that year; and
(b)	$240 for each member who is a full‑time student of a prescribed school and receiving secondary education at any time during that year.

2015 contribution for non‑schooling members

4.—(1) For 2015, the amount of contribution to be paid under section 9(1)(b) of the Act is —

(a)

$200 for a non‑schooling member who is at least 7 years of age but below 13 years of age;

(b)

$200 for a non‑schooling member who —

(i)	is at least 13 years of age but below 15 years of age;
(ii)	is receiving home‑schooling in accordance with paragraph 3(1)(b)(i) to (vi) of the Compulsory Education (Exemption) Order (Cap. 51, O 1); and
(iii)	did not perform, in 2014, at the Primary School Leaving Examination and the National Education Quiz, at the level of educational achievement determined as suitable by the Director‑General of Education for that Examination and Quiz;

(c)

$200 for a non‑schooling member who —

(i)	is at least 13 years of age but below 17 years of age;
(ii)	does not attain 17 years of age at any time in 2015; and
(iii)	is receiving primary education in a designated school; and

(d)

$240 for a non‑schooling member not referred to in sub‑paragraph (b) or (c), who —

(i)	is at least 13 years of age but below 17 years of age; and
(ii)	does not attain 17 years of age at any time in 2015.

(2) In this paragraph —

“designated school”, “home‑schooling”, “National Education Quiz” and “Primary School Leaving Examination” have the same meanings as in the Compulsory Education (Exemption) Order;

“non‑schooling member” means a member of the Edusave Pupils Fund who is not schooling at any time during 2015.

Made on 29 December 2014.

NEO KIAN HONG

Permanent Secretary
(Education Development),
Ministry of Education,
Singapore.

[Edun C15-14-007 Vol. 8; AG/LLRD/SL/87A/2010/8 Vol. 1]

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