The Minister may make regulations—
| (a) |
to provide for safety measures at public and independent schools; |
| (aA) |
on the management of learner pregnancy; |
| (aB) |
on the admission of learners to public schools; |
| (aC) |
on the prohibition of the payment of unauthorised remuneration or the giving of other financial benefits, or benefits in kind to certain employees; |
| (aD) |
on the minimum norms and standards for provincial educator development institutes and district educator development centres; |
| (aE) |
on the organisation, roles and responsibilities of education districts; |
| (aF) |
on a national education information system; |
| (b) |
on any matter which must or may be prescribed by regulation under this Act; |
| (c) |
to prescribe a national curriculum statement applicable to public and independent schools; |
| (d) |
to prescribe a national process and procedures for the assessment of learner achievement in public and independent schools; |
| (e) |
to prescribe a national process for the assessment, monitoring and evaluation of education in public and independent schools’; |
| (f) |
on initiation practices at public and independent schools; |
| (g) |
to prescribe the age norm per grade in public and independent schools; |
| (h) |
to provide for norms and minimum standards for school funding; and |
| (i) |
on any matter which may be necessary or expedient to prescribe in order to achieve the objects of this Act. |
[Section 61(aA) to (aF) inserted by section 39(a) of the Basic Education Laws Amendment Act, 2024 (Act No. 32 of 2024), Notice No 5212, GG51258, dated 16 September 2024 – effective 24 December 2024 per Proclamation Notice 237 of 2024]
| (2) |
The regulations contemplated in subsection (1) may provide that any person who contravenes a provision thereof or fails to comply therewith is guilty of an offence and liable, on conviction, to a fine or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months, or to both a fine and such imprisonment. |
[Section 61(2) inserted by section 39(b) of the Basic Education Laws Amendment Act, 2024 (Act No. 32 of 2024), Notice No 5212, GG51258, dated 16 September 2024 – effective 24 December 2024 per Proclamation Notice 237 of 2024]
| (3) |
Any regulation made under subsection (1)(aA) and (aB) must, before publication in the Gazette, be tabled in Parliament. |
[Section 61(3) inserted by section 39(b) of the Basic Education Laws Amendment Act, 2024 (Act No. 32 of 2024), Notice No 5212, GG51258, dated 16 September 2024 – effective 24 December 2024 per Proclamation Notice 237 of 2024]
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