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Education (Non-Government Schools) Act · s 10

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s 10Refusal of registration as a manager or teacher

(1)

The Minister may refuse to register any person as a manager of, or teacher in, a school if —

(a)

such person has been convicted by any Court of competent jurisdiction in Brunei Darussalam or elsewhere of an offence punishable with imprisonment, or of an offence against this Part or against any regulation made under the provisions of paragraph (d),

(f)

, (g), or (h), of subsection (1) of section 29; or

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(b)

such person shall have been a manager of, or a teacher in, any school struck off the register under the provisions of this Part at the time when such school was struck off the register; or

(c)

the Minister has reasonable grounds to believe that such person has at any time, acted as a manager of, or teacher in, any school on contravention of the provisions of this Part; or

(d)

it appears to the Minister that it will be prejudicial to the interests of Brunei Darussalam or of the public or of the pupils of the school that such person should be so registered; or

(e)

in the case of a person applying to be registered as a teacher, such person’s qualifications to act as such teacher are, in the opinion of the Minister, inadequate; or

(f)

such person has made a false or misleading statement in a material particular in his application for registration.

(2)

When under the provisions of this section the

Minister refuses to register a person as a manager or teacher, he shall inform the applicant in writing that registration is refused and specify in such notice the grounds on which such registration is refused, and shall notify the applicant that he has a right of appeal against such refusal in accordance with the provisions of section 19.