Education Act 1996 · Updated to 1 Jul 2020 · Part XIV · Offences and Penalties
133. Offences and penalties relating to registration of teachers
Official textFrom Laws of Malaysia Online, unchanged
A person who, in making an application for registration as a teacher or otherwise for the purpose of inducing the Registrar
teacher
“teacher” means a person who— (a) teaches pupils in an educational institution; or (b) prepares or issues lessons or corrects returned answers in, for or through a distance education centre, and includes a head teacher or principal;
General to exercise or refrain from exercising his power under this Act, makes any statement which he knows to be false or does not believe to be true or intentionally suppresses any material fact or furnishes any information which is misleading, shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding ten thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both.
A person who—
acts as a teacher in an educational institution in contravention of subsection 103(1);
causes, permits or employs a person to act as a teacher in contravention of subsection 103(1);
acts as a teacher in an unregistered educational institution;
being a registered teacher teaches in an educational institution in contravention of any condition imposed under subsection 109(2) or being the holder of a permit to teach issued under section 114 teaches in an educational institution in contravention of any condition imposed by the permit;
causes, permits or employs a registered teacher to teach in an educational institution in contravention of any condition relating to the teacher imposed under section 109 or causes, permits or employs the holder of a permit to teach issued under section 114 to teach otherwise than in accordance with the conditions imposed by the permit;
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fails to surrender a certificate, document or permit in accordance with section 115; or
being a registered teacher fails to make a report to the
Registrar General in accordance with section 116, shall, on conviction of an offence under paragraph (b) or (e), be liable to a fine not exceeding ten thousand ringgit and shall, on conviction of an offence under paragraph (a), (c), (d), (f) or (g), be liable to a fine not exceeding five thousand ringgit.
Terms defined in s 2
educational institution
Defined · s 2“educational institution” means a school or any other place where, in the carrying on of the work of an organization or institution, persons are habitually taught, whether in one or more classes, and includes a kindergarten and a distance education centre but does not include— (a) any place where the teaching is confined exclusively to the teaching of any religion; or (b) any place declared by the Minister by notification in the Gazette not to be an educational institution for the purposes of this Act; Education 19
registered teacher
Defined · s 2“registered teacher” means any teacher registered under this Act;
Registrar General
Defined · s 2“Registrar General” means the Registrar General of Educational Institutions and Teachers appointed under subsection 5(1), and includes the Deputy Registrar General of Educational Institutions and Teachers appointed under subsection 5(2);
teacher
Defined · s 2“teacher” means a person who— (a) teaches pupils in an educational institution; or (b) prepares or issues lessons or corrects returned answers in, for or through a distance education centre, and includes a head teacher or principal;
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