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EDUCATION
Ord. No. 52/71
A261

“certificate of provisional registration” means in relation to a school which is provisionally registered, the certificate which is issued by the Director under subsection (1) of section 18 in respect of the school;

“certificate of registration” means—

(a) in relation to a school which is registered under sectionm13, the certificate issued by the Director under subsection (1) of section 18 in respect of the school; and
(b) in relation to a school which is registered under either of the repealed Ordinances, the certificate of registration issued by the Director under such Ordinance in respect of the school;

“Director” means the Director of Education;

“document” includes any account, counterfoil, text-book, exercise book, pamphlet, publication, newspaper, poster, drawing, sketch, film, filmstrip, slide, gramophone record, and other printed, written or recorded matter, whether relating to school management, teaching or recreation or to any other activity of or in connexion with a school;

“evening instruction” means any instruction the greater part of which in any one day takes place after 6 p.m.;

“functions” includes powers and duties;

“inclusive fee” means the total sum of money charged in respect of the education of a pupil in a school;

“inspector of schools” means a person who is appointed under section 79 to be an inspector of schools, a medical officer of schools and a health inspector of schools;

“kindergarten education” means education which is suitable for normal pupils who have attained the age of four years but not the age of five years;

“manage” includes administer;

“management committee” means the registered managers of a school;

“manager” means a person who manages or takes any part in the management of—

(a) a school; or
(b) the activities of the pupils of a school;

“permitted teacher” means a person, not being a registered teacher, who is permitted to be employed as a teacher in a school in accordance with a permit to teach;