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feel that the responsibility

must lie with them.

On the point of assistance, Sir, there is no problem with government schools and aided schools. They can

approach the Director of Education and he will arrange

for assistance through the Director of Architectural

Services who would be quite happy to advise.

view of the large numbers of school premises that we

are talking about, I think that we must again expect

But in

the

owners of the

schools

in the private sector to appoint

. architects or Authorised Versons to look into any problems

that they may suspect.

MR. SOHMEN: Sir, the Secretary in response to my earlier

the Secretary

question, said that the regulations applied to private

were

schools which not purpose-built.

But he also said that

were

these regulations did not apply to private schools which purpose-built.

Could I ask the Secretary whether it would not be

meaningful to have the same regulations also apply to

the second category of schools?

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