1985 Ed.]
Education
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(2) On registering an applicant as a teacher under subsection (1), the Director shall issue to the applicant a certificate of registration in the prescribed form.
46. The Director may refuse to register an applicant as a teacher if it appears to him that the applicant-
(a) is not a fit and proper person to be a teacher;
(b) has been convicted of an offence punishable with imprisonment;
(c) is a person in respect of whom a permit to teach has previously been cancelled;
(d) is medically unfit;
(e) does not possess the prescribed qualifications;
(f) has attained the age of 70 years; or
(g) in making or in connexion with any application-
(i) for approval to be a manager;
(ii) for registration as a manager or a teacher; or
(iii) to employ a person as a permitted teacher in a school,
has made any statement or furnished any information which is false in any material particular or by reason of the omission of any material particular.
47. The Director may cancel the registration of a teacher-
(a) on any ground specified in section 46 which applies to the teacher, whether or not such ground existed at the time when he was registered as a teacher;
(b) if it appears to the Director that the teacher is incompetent;
(c) if the teacher has contravened any provision of this Ordinance;
(d) if it appears to the Director that the teacher has behaved in any manner which, in the opinion of the Director, constitutes professional misconduct; or
(e) if it appears to the Director that the teacher has behaved in any manner which, in the opinion of the Director, is prejudicial to the maintenance of good order and discipline in the school in which the teacher teaches.
Permitted teachers
48. An application to employ a person as a permitted teacher in a school may only be made if the applicant is of the opinion that no suitable registered teacher is available for employment as a teacher in the school.
Grounds for refusal to register teacher.
Grounds for cancellation of registration of teacher.
Circumstances in which application to employ permitted teacher may be made.