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EDUCATION AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES ACT 2019 (NO 19 OF 2019) - SECT 19

19—Governing councils of stand-alone preschools and children's services centres

        (1)         The Minister must, by notice in the Gazette, establish a governing council for each stand-alone preschool or children's services centre.

        (2)         Subject to this Act, the same body may be the governing council for 2 or more stand-alone preschools or children's services centres, or a combination of stand-alone preschools and children's services centres.

        (3)         The governing council of a stand-alone preschool or children's services centre—

            (a)         is a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal; and

            (b)         has, subject to this Act and its constitution, all the powers of a natural person that are capable of being exercised by a body corporate; and

            (c)         is not an agency or instrumentality of the Crown.

        (4)         Except where the governing council adopts a constitution approved by the Minister under section 21

, the governing council of a stand-alone preschool or children's services centre is to operate under the model constitution for governing councils of the relevant kind.

        (5)         Subject to this Act and its constitution, the governing council of a stand-alone preschool or children's services centre may determine its own procedures.

        (6)         The regulations may make further provision in relation to governing councils of stand-alone preschools and children's services centres for the purposes of this Act.



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