Ordinance 45 of 1957, revised edition 1985
Section 23
3) When a school is registered, the Director-General shall issue to the supervisor thereof a certificate of registration in the Form 2 set out in the Schedule in which shall be specified the premises in which the school may be conducted and the supervisor shall cause a copy of the certificate together with a list drawn up in such languages as may be determined by the Director-General of the names of the —
(a) supervisor;
(b) registered managers;
Section 16.
Minimum qualifications for registration as teacher
The minimum qualifications for registration as a teacher shall be —
(a) where the medium is English, the Cambridge Overseas ‘O’ level School Certificate with a pass in oral English or such other qualifications as the Director-General shall consider its equivalent;
(b) where the medium is Chinese, the Certificate of the Government Senior Middle III Examination or Government Senior Normal Examination or such other qualifications as the Director-General shall consider their equivalent;
(c) where the medium is Malay, either the Malaya Certificate of Education with passes in Malay language and Malay literature or the Cambridge School Certificate with a credit in Malay, or the Certificate of the Sultan Idris Training College or, of the Malay Women’s Training College Malacca or the Certificate known as “Trained Under Other Schemes (T.U.O.S.)”, or the Standard VII Certificate in Malay of a Malay School in Singapore or Malaysia or such other qualifications as the Director-General shall consider their equivalent; and
(d) where the medium is Tamil, either the Malaya Certificate of Education with passes in Tamil language and Tamil literature or a Cambridge School Certificate with a credit in Tamil or the Indian Secondary School Leaving Certificate (Tamil) or the Certificate known as “Trained Under Other Schemes (T.U.O.S.)”, or the Standard VII Certificate of a Tamil School in Singapore or Malaysia or such other qualifications as the Director-General shall consider their equivalent:
Provided that the Director-General may at his discretion require such additional qualifications as he considers necessary for the teaching of a particular subject in a particular school.