Education Act · 2011 Revised Edition · Part XIV · Offences and Penalties
130. Offences and penalties relating to registration of teachers
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Any person who, in making an application for registration as a teacher or otherwise for the purpose of inducing the Registrar General to exercise or refrain from exercising any power under this Act, makes any statement which he knows to be false or does not believe to be true or intentionally suppresses any material fact or furnishes any information which is misleading, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000, imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or both.
teacher
“teacher” means a person who — (a) teaches pupils in an educational institution; or (b) prepares or issues lessons or corrects returned answers in, for or through a distance education centre, and includes a head teacher or principal;
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Any person who —
acts as a teacher in an educational institution without being registered as such, in contravention of section 98;
causes, permits or employs to act as a teacher a person who is not registered as such under section 98;
acts as a teacher in an unregistered educational institution;
being a registered teacher, teaches in an educational institution in contravention of any condition imposed under section 105(2), or being the holder of a permit to teach issued under section 108 teaches in an educational institution in contravention of any condition imposed by the permit;
causes, permits or employs a registered teacher to teach in an educational institution in contravention of any condition imposed under section 105(2), or causes, permits or employs the holder of a permit to teach issued under section 108 to teach otherwise than in accordance with the conditions imposed by the permit;
fails to surrender a certificate or permit in accordance with section 109; or
being a registered teacher, fails to report to the Registrar
General in accordance with section 110, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction of an offence against paragraph (b) or (e) to a fine not exceeding $10,000, and on conviction of an offence against paragraph (a), (c), (d), (f) or (g) to a fine not exceeding
$5,000.
Terms defined in s 2
educational institution
Defined · s 2“educational institution” means a school or any other place where, in the carrying on of the work of the organisation or institution, persons are habitually taught, whether in one or more classes, and includes a pre-school class, a kindergarten and a distance education centre but does not include any place declared by the Minister by notification in the Gazette not to be an educational institution for the purposes of this Act;
registered teacher
Defined · s 2“registered teacher” means any teacher registered under this Act;
Registrar General
Defined · s 2“Registrar General” means the Registrar General of Educational Institutions and Teachers appointed under section 5(1) and includes the Deputy Registrar General of Educational Institutions and Teachers appointed under the same section;
teacher
Defined · s 2“teacher” means a person who — (a) teaches pupils in an educational institution; or (b) prepares or issues lessons or corrects returned answers in, for or through a distance education centre, and includes a head teacher or principal;
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