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A310
Ord. No. 52/71
EDUCATION

Director to record school on receipt of completed application. 95. (1) On receiving a request in accordance with section 94, the Director shall—

(a) record the existence of the school referred to in the request; and
(b) issue to the applicant a written statement in the prescribed form and sufficient copies of the statement so that the statement or a copy may be exhibited in each of the premises specified in the request.

(2) The statement or any copy thereof issued under subsection (1) in respect of a recorded school shall be exhibited at all times in a conspicuous place in each of the premises specified in the request to record the existence of the school.

Recorded school to be exempt from Ordinance. 96. Subject to sections 97 and 98, a recorded school and the owners, managers, teachers and pupils of the school shall be exempt from the provisions of this Ordinance other than section 3 (which deals with the interpretation of words and expressions used in this Ordinance), section 91 (which provides for the service of notices) and this Part, and shall be deemed to have been so exempted at all times prior to the date on which the existence of the school was recorded under section 95.

Duration of exemption. 97. (1) Section 96 shall, subject to the provisions of this section and section 98, cease to apply to a recorded school and to the owners, managers, teachers and pupils of the school on the 1st day of August 1974.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1), the Director may, by notice in writing to the manager of any recorded school, permit section 96 to continue to apply to the school for such period after the 1st day of August 1974 as may be stated in such notice and subject to such conditions as the Director may specify therein.

(3) Notwithstanding subsections (1) and (2), section 96 shall cease to apply to a recorded school and to the owners, managers, teachers and pupils of the school if—

(a) the school is registered or provisionally registered;
(b) the Director notifies any manager of the school in writing that he is of the opinion that, without his permission—
(i) the school has been operated in any name not specified in the request as the name in which the school is operated;
(ii) the school has been operated in any premises not specified in the request as premises in which the school was operated;