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43.
—(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), no registered private education institution may offer or provide a course, whether in Singapore or elsewhere and whether by itself or in association or collaboration with or by affiliation with any other person, except with the permission in writing of the Council and in accordance with the terms and conditions of such permission.
(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply to such courses as may be prescribed.
(3) No registered private education institution may offer or provide, whether in Singapore or elsewhere, a course leading to the award of any associate, undergraduate or graduate degree or any other degree that is conferred in its own name without the permission in writing of the Minister.
(4) An application for the permission of the Council under subsection (1) shall —
(a)
be made on behalf of the registered private education institution by a manager of the registered private education institution (referred to in this section as the applicant) to the Council in such form and manner, and within such time, as may be prescribed; and
(b)
be accompanied by the prescribed fee.
(5) The Council may, upon an application made under subsection (4) and after such inquiry as it may think necessary, grant its permission subject to such terms and conditions as it thinks fit or refuse to grant its permission.
(6) The Council may, in determining whether to grant its permission under subsection (1), have regard to such considerations as it thinks fit.
(7) The Council may require the applicant making an application under subsection (4) to furnish it with such information or documents as the Council considers necessary in relation to the application.
(8) Where the applicant fails to furnish the Council with any information or document required under subsection (7) in relation to his application within the time specified by the Council, the application shall be deemed to have been withdrawn.
(9) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (5) and notwithstanding section 49, the terms and conditions subject to which the Council grants its permission to a registered private education institution may include a term or condition requiring the registered private education institution to be or to remain (as the case may be) a member of a Scheme.
(10) The Council may at any time, without compensation —
(a)
add to, vary or revoke any term or condition of its permission granted under subsection (5); or
(b)
suspend or revoke its permission granted under subsection (5).
(11) Any registered private education institution which contravenes subsection (1) or (3) shall be guilty of an offence.
(12) Any person who knowingly or recklessly —
(a)
issues or publishes any advertisement of any course to be offered or provided by a registered private education institution, being a course which the Council has not granted its permission under subsection (1); or
(b)
solicits or receives any fee from any student in respect of such a course,
shall be guilty of an offence.