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EDUCATION
Ord. No. 52/71
A299

Powers of inspectors. 81. The Director and any inspector of schools may, for the purposes of section 80—

(a) at all reasonable times enter the premises of any school;
(b) enter any premises in which he has reason to suspect that an offence against this Ordinance has been or is being committed;
(c) require any manager or teacher of a school to produce any book, document or other article relating to the management of the school, or to the teaching in or any other activity of the school, or to furnish any information relating to such management, teaching or activity;
(d) remove for further examination any book, document or other article which he has reason to suspect is evidence of the commission of an offence against this Ordinance, or is evidence of a ground for the withdrawal of the approval of any person to be a manager, or for the cancellation of the registration of any school, manager or teacher, or for the cancellation of the provisional registration of any school, or for the cancellation of any permit to teach; and
(e) do such other things as are necessary for the inspection of a school.

Power of Director to direct remedial measures. 82. (1) The Director may, if it appears to him that—

(a) a school is not being managed satisfactorily;
(b) the education of the pupils of a school is not being promoted in a proper manner; or
(c) any provision of this Ordinance is being or has been contravened in respect of a school,

by notice in writing give such directions as he thinks necessary in order that the school will be operated satisfactorily, or that the education of the pupils of the school will be promoted in a proper manner, or that such provision of this Ordinance will be complied with in respect of the school.

(2) Any notice under subsection (1)—

(a) may be served on the supervisor and every other manager of the school concerned; and
(b) may specify a period of time within which the directions shall be complied with.