The Education Act.pdf - Ministry of Education

16 EDUCATlON
Co-cic- lS.-(l) It shal! not be required as a condition of the
clause.
19/1980 admission or attendance of any student in a public educa-
%?) tional institution-
(a) that he shall attend OT abstain from attending any
Sunday School or place of religious worship;
(6) that he shall, if his parent objects, attend any
religious observance or any instruction in religious
subjects at such institution or elsewhere;
(c) that he shall attend such institution on any day
specially set apart for religious worship by the
religious body to which he belongs.
(2) If the parent of any student attending a public
educational institution requests that such student be excused
from attendance at any religious observance or any instruction
in religious subjects at such institution or elsewhere,
then, until such request is withdrawn, the student shall be
excused from such attendance without forfeiting any of the
other benefits of such institution.
(3) Where the parent of any student who is a boarder
at a public educational institution requests that the student
be permitted to attend worship in accordance with the
tenets of a particular religious denomination on Sundays
or other days exclusively set apart for religious observance
by the religious body to which his parent belongs, or to
receive religious instruction in accordance with such tenets
outside school hours, the Board of Management of the institution
shall make arrangements for alfording to the student
reasonable opportunities for so doing, so, however, that such
arrangements shall not entail expenditure by the Minister
or the Board of Management.
(4) Subject to the provisions of this section, the
school day in every public educational institution shall
include time for collective worship on the part of all students
in attendance at the institution, and the arrangements made
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