Cap. 605 Art. 44Equitable education.

(1) The Minister may make regulations, issue policies and give directives, as he deems appropriate, to reach out to all children entitled to attend school, including for the establishment of alternative learning programmes, educational spaces, nurture groups and learning support zones in the school and of learning support centres and resource centres outside the school, for the transfer of students from the class and the school to these zones and centres, and for any other matter ancillary thereto as may be required.

(2) The Minister may make regulations, issue policies and give directives as may in his opinion be required to provide students with additional support needs, including the multi-disciplinary assessment of their condition, the process of statementing, the formulating and the application of an individual educational programme, accessible assessment, tests and examinations of concerned students, the programmes in resource centres, the application of therapies and, or the giving of medicines as prescribed by competent professional persons according to any law in force to students while at a school or centre, means for the reconsideration of and appeals from decisions on an application for the statementing of a student, and on any other matter ancillary thereto as may be required.