Section 130

the admission of pupils to educational institutions, the keeping of registers of pupils in the educational institutions, the age limits and conditions under which pupils may be retained in an educational institution or in any class in the educational institution;

the duration of terms of educational institutions, the days on which and the hours during which pupils shall attend the educational institutions and the days which shall be observed as holidays by all educational institutions or any

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specified educational institution or class of educational institutions;

the establishment and management of educational institutions, and the duties of governors or other persons responsible for the management of the educational institutions;

the form in which any register for the registration of educational institutions or governors or employees shall be kept or maintained and the procedure for the issue of extracts there from;

the procedure to be followed and fees deemed proper to be levied in respect of an application for registration under this

Act or in respect of any certificate, permit or any other document issued under this Act;

the procedure to be followed for the alteration or amendment of certificates of registration or permits issued under this Act and the replacement of the certificates or permits which are lost or defaced;

discipline in educational institutions and any activity of pupils, whether in an educational institution or not, which in the opinion of the Minister may have an effect on the discipline of an educational institution;

the National Curriculum including subjects and matters, not being studies relating to the religion of Malaysia, on which instruction may or shall be given in educational institutions and the times to be devoted to the study of each subject taught in educational institutions;

the establishment, organization, management, control and dissolution of associations of pupils or pupils and teachers, or teachers and parents whether within an educational institution or not, and regulations made under this paragraph may provide for the association of teachers and parents to include any person other than the teacher or

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parents of the pupils of the educational institution concerned;

the books, materials and apparatus to be used in educational institutions, and the methods of purchase of the books, materials and apparatus;

the prohibition of the use in an educational institution or any specified class of educational institutions of any book or material, the use of which appears undesirable;

the prohibition of the use or delivery to any pupil by a distance education centre or the supply, import or sale for use or delivery by a distance education centre of any material, book, lesson, instruction or other matter printed or written or otherwise the use of which by the distance education centre appears undesirable;

the keeping of books of account and the audit of accounts in educational institutions in receipt of grants;

the standards, including standards of health and safety, and uses to which the premises of educational institutions shall conform, and prescribing different standards and uses for such descriptions of educational institutions as may be specified in the regulations;

the registration of pupils in educational institutions, the inspection of the registers of such pupils, the taking of extracts from the registers for the purposes of this Act by persons duly authorized in that behalf under the regulations, and the provision to such authority as may be prescribed by regulations, of returns as to the contents of the registers as may be expedient, by the persons who are required to keep such registers under the regulations;

the form in which the register of teachers kept under section 104 shall be kept or maintained, and the procedure for the issue of certified copies of entries made therein;

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the procedure to be followed for endorsement, alteration or amendment of certificates of registration as a teacher issued under section 109 and the replacement of lost or defaced certificates or permits to teach;

the procedure to be followed and the consequences which shall ensue on the revocation of a certificate of registration as a teacher issued under section 109 or of a permit to teach;

any fees deemed proper to be levied on application for registration as a teacher under, or on the issue of a certificate or of a permit to teach or otherwise in regard to any matter mentioned in, Part IX;

the practice and procedure to be followed in connection with an investigation made by a Committee of Enquiry constituted under subsection 126(1);

the manner in which appeals shall be made to the Minister from decisions of the Registrar General and the fees to be paid in respect of an appeal;

the establishment, organization, management, control and dissolution of any sports council, body or committee at the educational institution, and of educational institutions at the district, state or national level;

(va) the establishment, organization, management, control and dissolution of any council, body or committee for technical and vocational education and training;

the provision of extension education in educational institutions established and maintained by the Minister under this Act;

the circulation by a pupil or pupils, whether within an educational institution or not, of any magazine, pamphlet or printed or written matter of a like nature;

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the manner of determining the amount of grant-in-aid payable to government-aided educational institutions;

the conditions and limitations upon or subject to which grants-in-aid or capital grants shall be paid to government-aided educational institutions;

(aa) the determination of approved fees to be charged in respect of attendance at educational institutions generally, or any class of government-aided educational institutions and the payment or remission of the fees;

(ab) the manner of transferring or vesting of any property transferred or vested under this Act and the manner of registering a title to the property;

(ac) any fees deemed proper to be levied in respect of any matter provided for under this Act;

(ad) the forms which may be used for carrying out the provisions of this Act and which may be used in connection with any matter stated or required in this Act to be prescribed by the Minister; and

(ae) any other matter which the Minister deems expedient or necessary for giving effect to any of the provisions of this

Act.

Regulations may prescribe penalties for contravention thereof