PART III.
Managers of Schools.
Approval of persons to be managers.
Application for approval to be a manager. 23. An application for approval to be a manager shall be made to the Director in the prescribed form.
Approval to be a manager. 24. (1) On receiving an application in accordance with section 23, the Director shall make such inquiry as he considers necessary and shall determine the application—
- (a) by approving the applicant to be a manager; or
- (b) by refusing under section 25 to approve the applicant to be a manager.
(2) On approving an applicant to be a manager under subsection (1), the Director shall issue to the applicant a certificate of approval in the prescribed form.
Grounds for refusal of approval to be a manager. 25. The Director may refuse to approve an applicant to be a manager if it appears to him that the applicant—
- (a) is not resident in Hong Kong for at least nine months in each year;
- (b) is not a fit and proper person to be a manager;
- (c) has been convicted of an offence punishable with imprisonment;
- (d) is a person in respect of whom a permit to teach has previously been cancelled;
- (e) has not established that he possesses suitable qualifications or experience to be a manager;
- (f) cannot perform satisfactorily or is unlikely to perform satisfactorily the duties of a manager;
- (g) has attained the age of seventy years; or
- (h) in making or in connexion with any application—
- (i) for approval to be a manager;
- (ii) for registration of a school;
- (iii) for registration as a manager or a teacher; or
- (iv) to employ a person as a permitted teacher in a school,
has made any statement or furnished any information which is false in any material particular or by reason of the omission of any material particular.
