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Registers.

Require-

ments for registration.

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3. For the purposes of this Ordinance the Director shall keep the following registers-

(a) a register of Colleges;

(b) a register of members of Boards of Governors;

(c) a register of members of College Councils;

(d) a register of teachers in Colleges.

4.

A Post Secondary College shall be eligible for registration under section 3 and thereafter to remain on the register where the Director is satisfied as to-

(a) the composition of the Board of Governors, College Council and teaching staff being such as to ensure satisfactory aca- demic and general standards and conduct;

(5) the constitution, statutes or other instruments which govern the Post Secondary College, which documents shall contaia such provisions as are set out in the regulations;

(c) the courses offered being suitable in all respects for Post Secondary Colleges meeting a community need and including major courses extending over at least four years;

(d) the equipment, laboratories, library and general facilities being

adequate for the courses offered;

(e) the number, qualifications, remuneration and conditions of

service of the Post Secondary College staff;

(f) the premises being adequate for the purposes of a Post Secondary College and being in all ways suitable and safe for such purposes;

(g) the conditions as to age and attainments of the student qualifying for admission, the standard of instruction and the tinal examination standards:

(4) the number of students being admitted having regard to the maintenance of status and standards, facilitics available and community need;

() students being admitted without favour being shown of grounds of race, nationality or religion save where on the application of the Post Secondary College the Director approves of an exception in favour of a class of persons holding a particular religious faith;

()) the Post Secondary College being free from affiliation with or control by any foreign government, foreign organization of political group and the students teachers and officers refraining from political propaganda and from any undesirable political activity and from any other activity whatsoever which the Director considers inimical to the interests of the College:

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(k) adequate provision being made in the Post Secondary College for the encouragement of corporate and social life and for recreation:

(4) the finances of the Post Secondary College;

(m) the legal status of the Post Secondary College which shall be be a corporation unless other arrangements are made, to the approval of the Director, for the proper discharge of legal obligations and safeguarding of rights of the College:

(n) the College complying in all respects with the provisions of

this Ordinance.

5. So long as a College remains registered under section 3 it Effect of shall be exempt from the provisions of the Education Ordinance, 1952. registration,

(33 of 1952, 1958 Re- princ).

and cancel.

6. (1) The Director may refuse to register or may cancel the Refusal of registration of-

registration (a) any Post Secondary College where he is not satisfied in respect lation.

of any of the matters specified in section 4;

(8) any person as a member of a Board of Governors or College Council or as a teacher where it appears to him that such person is not a fit and proper person to act in that capacity or that such person fails to comply with the provisions of this Ordinance.

(2) The Director shall cancel the registration of-

(c) any College where it appears to him that such College has ceased to function or where the Chairman of the Board of Governors, on the instructions of the Board of Governors. requests cancellation;

(6) any person from the register of members of Boards of Governors or College Councils or teachers where such person ceases to act in that capacity.

(3) The Director shall give notice in writing of any refusal to register or of any cancellation to the Post Secondary College or person concerned.

(4) Where the Director refuses to register or cancels a registration under subsection (1) the Post Secondary College or person concerned may within twenty-one days of the receipt of the notice under sub- section (3) appeal by way of petition to the Governor in Council, and the decision of the Governor in Council shall be final.

(5) For the purpose of considering a petition and determining the appeal the Governor in Council may appoint a tribunal to inquire into the matters raised in such petition, and may empower such tribunal