PART VIIFURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION

Miscellaneous

Regulations as to carrying on of institutions of further education

118.—(1) The Department may by regulations make provision as to the carrying on of institutions of further education.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1), regulations under paragraph (1) may include provision—

(a)with respect to the curriculum and time-table to be followed in such institutions;

(b)enabling the Department to prohibit the use in such institutions of any book or other teaching material of which the Department does not approve;

(c)preventing the use of the premises of such institutions for such purposes as may be prescribed;

(d)with respect to the fees to be charged to persons attending such institutions;

(e)with respect to the keeping, disclosure and transfer of educational records about pupils at such institutions and the supply of copies of such records to such persons, and in such circumstances, as may be determined by or under the regulations.

(3) Regulations made under paragraph (1) by virtue of paragraph (2)(e) may authorise persons who in pursuance of the regulations supply copies of any such records as are there mentioned to charge such fee as they think fit (not exceeding the cost of supply) in respect of each copy so supplied.

(4) Regulations under paragraph (1) may enable the Department or a prescribed body or person to authorise such exceptions, grant such approvals and make such determinations for the purposes of the regulations as are specified therein.