Education Endowment and Savings Schemes (Grants) Regulations 2007

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No. S 751

Education Endowment and Savings Schemes Act

(Chapter 87A)

Education Endowment and Savings Schemes (Grants) Regulations 2007

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

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Education Endowment and Savings Schemes (Grants) Regulations 2007 and shall come into operation on 1st January 2008.

Definitions

2. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —

“Government school” means a primary school or secondary school organised and conducted directly by the Government;

“Government-aided school” means a primary school or secondary school (not being an independent school) which —

(a)	is established by any person other than the Government; and
(b)	is conducted by a committee of management which is in receipt of a grant-in-aid from the Government under the Education (Grant-in-Aid) Regulations (Cap. 87, Rg 3) for the defraying of the expenses incurred for conducting the school;

“independent school” means a secondary school which —

(a)	is specified in any order made under section 3(1) of the School Boards (Incorporation) Act (Cap. 284A); or
(b)	is set out in Part I of the Schedule to the Education Endowment and Savings Schemes (Edusave Pupils Fund) Regulations 2007 (G.N. No. S 750/2007);

“Institute of Technical Education” means the Institute of Technical Education, Singapore established under section 3 of the Institute of Technical Education Act (Cap. 141A);

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

“junior college” means an institution for providing full-time pre-university education, and includes any centralised institute or school which provides pre-university education;

“primary school” means a school for providing full-time primary education;

“secondary school” means a school for providing full-time secondary education, and includes an institution which provides secondary education under an integrated programme;

“special education school” means a school which provides special education for pupils with physical or mental disabilities and which is set out in Part II of the Schedule to the Education Endowment and Savings Schemes (Edusave Pupils Fund) Regulations 2007;

“specified educational institution” means an educational institution set out in Part III of the Schedule to the Education Endowment and Savings Schemes (Edusave Pupils Fund) Regulations 2007.

Grants

3. The income of the Endowment Fund may be paid out and expended under section 6(1)(a) of the Act for the provision of grants to any of the following educational institutions to enable it to enhance its quality of teaching:

(a)	any Government school;
(b)	any Government-aided school;
(c)	any independent school;
(d)	the Institute of Technical Education;
(e)	any junior college;
(f)	any special education school;
(g)	any specified educational institution.

Amount of grant

4. The amount of every grant provided under section 6(1)(a) of the Act shall be determined by the Minister.

Accounts and financial reports

5. Every educational institution referred to in regulation 3 which is in receipt of any grant provided under section 6(1)(a) of the Act shall keep such records of accounts, and submit to the Ministry of Education such financial reports, as the Minister may require.

Revocation

6. The Education Endowment Scheme (Grants) Regulations (Rg 6) are revoked.

Made this 31st day of December 2007.

TAN CHING YEE

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Education,
Singapore.

[Edun S15-14-002 V14; AG/LEG/SL/87A/2002/1 Vol. 4]

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