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Rules for provident funds.

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(4) The Director may by notice in writing to the supervisor of any school waive wholly or partly the requirements of any regulation in respect of the school.

85. (1) For the purpose of maintaining any provident fund (whether established before or after the commencement of this Ordinance) for the benefit of teachers employed by schools to which grants in aid or subsidies are made by the Government, the Governor in Council may make rules providing for~

(a) the objects and method of control and management and

investment of such fund:

(b) the persons or classes of persons who shall be eligible for membership of such fund, and the persons or classes of persons who shall be compulsory contributors to such fund;

(c) contributions to such fund, and the method of payment; (d) the method of dealing with any contribution which may

be made by the Government to such fund;

(e) the constitution of a reserve fund to meet fluctuations in the value of investments, and for the allocation to a reserve fund of any investment income of the provident fund;

() the method of conditions precedent for, and authority for withdrawals and benefits, and the permissible amount of withdrawals and benefits;

(g) the appointment of any trustees who may be considered necessary, and the powers and duties of the trustees; and (h) generally for the purpose of the maintenance of such

fund.

(2) Such sums as may be necessary to meet the contributions payable by the Government to any provident fund in accordance with rules made under subsection (1) shall be met from moneys provided by the Legislative Council.

(3) Subject to any rules made under subsection (1), no con- tribution or donation to or dividend or interest on a dividend from a provident fund shall be assignable or transferable or liable to be attached, sequestered or levied upon, for or in respect of any debt or claim whatsoever.

(4) On the death of a contributor to any provident fund, the first five thousand dollars payable out of such contributor's account in respect of his death shall be deemed to be an amount in respect of which the Accountant General, on being satisfied

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of the expediency of dispensing with probate or administration. may under section 59 of the Probate and Administration Ordin- ance authorize payment to such person or persons as he may consider entitled thereto without requiring the production of pro- bate or administration.

86. No person or school shall-

(a) award a degree to a person; or

(b) issue any document which could reasonably be taken as

signifying the award of a degree to a person.

87. (1) Any person who-

(a) is an owner or a manager of or a teacher in a school

which is not registered or registered provisionally:

(5) is an owner or a manager of a school which is operated

in contravention of subsection (1) of section 19:

(c) contravenes section 27; or

(d)

obstructs—-~

(i) the Director or an inspector while the Director or inspector is carrying out an inspection of a school;

(ii) any manager appointed under subsection (1) of section 41 in the performance of his functions as a manager;

(e) is an owner or a manager of a school which is operated while its registration or provisional registration is suspended under subsection (3) of section 69;

(f) teaches in a school while its registration or provisional registration is suspended under subsection (3) of section 69;

(g) manages a school while his registration as a manager of such school is deemed to be suspended under subsection (4) of section 69;

(b) refuses to produce any book or document or other article or to furnish any information upon being so required under section 81, or furnishes information which is false in a material particular and which he knows or reason- ably ought to know is false in such particular; (being a supervisor or any other manager of a school, fails to comply with any notice served on him under sec- tion 82:

contravenes subsection (6) of section 83; or

(4) in or in connexion with any application under this Ordinance makes any stalement or furnishes any informa- tion, whether such statement or information be verbal

(Cap. 10)

Prohibition of issue of degrees or documents

resembling degrees.

Offences and penalties.