Section 37A: Control of additional tuition
consolidated text (as at 2016, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
37A. Control of additional tuition
(1) Subject to subsection (2), no person shall provide to a pupil who is
attending a school additional tuition in a subject which is being taught at the
school—
(a) in the case of a pupil attending a primary school, where he has
not reached Grade 5;
(b) in the case of a pupil who is in Grade 5 or 6 or attending a
secondary school, unless the person providing the tuition is a
teacher who is registered for that purpose in such manner and
subject to such conditions as may be prescribed.
(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply to—
(a) the teaching of an oriental language;
(b) the provision of religious education by a school registered under
this Act.
(3) Any person who contravenes this section shall commit an offence
and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 10,000 rupees and
to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years.
[S. 37A inserted by Act 10 of 1991; amended by s. 5 of Act 33 of 2011 w.e.f. 15 March 2012
only in so far as it relates to section 37A (1) (a); s. 14 (r) of Act 18 of 2016
w.e.f. 1 January 2017.]