Education Endowment and Savings Schemes (Scholarships, Bursaries and Awards) (Amendment) Regulations 2021

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 24 Nov 2021

No. S 898

Education Endowment and Savings Schemes Act

(CHAPTER 87A)

Education Endowment and Savings Schemes
(Scholarships, Bursaries and Awards)
(Amendment) Regulations 2021

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 24 of the Education Endowment and Savings Schemes Act, the Minister for Education makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Education Endowment and Savings Schemes (Scholarships, Bursaries and Awards) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 and come into operation on 1 January 2022.

Amendment of regulation 5

2. Regulation 5 of the Education Endowment and Savings Schemes (Scholarships, Bursaries and Awards) Regulations (Rg 4) is amended —

(a)

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

“(b)	the pupil has sat for the Primary School Leaving Examination in the previous year and has obtained the qualifying aggregate score in the Primary School Leaving Examination in that year;”; and

(b)

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

“(2) In this regulation —

“cut‑off position”, in relation to a pupil who sat for the Primary School Leaving Examination in a year, means the position of the pupil that determines the qualifying aggregate score, which is determined in accordance with the formula (rounded up to the nearest whole number)

where A is the total number of secondary one places in independent schools that are available to the pupils who sat for the Primary School Leaving Examination that year;

“qualifying aggregate score”, in relation to the Primary School Leaving Examination sat by the pupils in a year, means the aggregate score obtained by the pupil in the Primary School Leaving Examination who is ranked at the cut‑off position among all the pupils who sat for the Primary School Leaving Examination that year.”.

[G.N. Nos. S 588/2010; S 608/2012; S 759/2014; S 643/2015; S 599/2016; S 666/2017; S 117/2018; S 176/2019; S 668/2019; S 960/2020]

Made on 2 November 2021.

LAI CHUNG HAN

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Education,
Singapore.

[N27-03-519; AG/LEGIS/SL/87A/2020/2 Vol. 1]

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