Education Endowment and Savings Schemes (Amount of Edusave Contribution for 2016) Order 2015

No. S 810

Education Endowment and Savings Schemes Act

(CHAPTER 87A)

Education Endowment and Savings Schemes
(Amount of Edusave Contribution for 2016)
Order 2015

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 9(5) of the Education Endowment and Savings Schemes Act, Mr Ng Chee Meng, Senior Minister for State, charged with the responsibility of the Minister for Education (Schools), makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Education Endowment and Savings Schemes (Amount of Edusave Contribution for 2016) Order 2015 and comes into operation on 1 January 2016.

Qualifying date

2.  For 2016, the qualifying date for every member of the Edusave Pupils Fund (except an individual who becomes in 2016 a member for the first time under section 8(1) of the Act) is 1 January 2016.

2016 contribution for full‑time students

3.  For 2016, the amount of contribution to be paid under section 9(1)(a) of the Act is —

(a) $200 for each member who is a full‑time student of a prescribed school and receiving primary education at any time during that year; and

(b) $240 for each member who is a full-time student of a prescribed school and receiving secondary education at any time during that year.

2016 contribution for non‑schooling members

4.—(1)  For 2016, the amount of contribution to be paid under section 9(1)(b) of the Act is —

(a) $200 for a non‑schooling member who is at least 7 years of age but below 13 years of age;

(b) $200 for a non‑schooling member who —

(i) is at least 13 years of age but below 15 years of age;

(ii) is receiving home‑schooling as described in paragraph 3(1)(b)(i) to (vi) of the Compulsory Education (Exemption) Order (Cap. 51, O 1); and

(iii) did not perform, in 2015, at the Primary School Leaving Examination and the National Education Quiz, at such level of educational achievement as the Director‑General of Education may determine;

(c) $200 for a non‑schooling member who —

(i) is at least 13 years of age but below 17 years of age;

(ii) does not attain 17 years of age at any time in 2016; and

(iii) is receiving primary education in a designated school; and

(d) $240 for a non‑schooling member not referred to in sub‑paragraph (b) or (c), who —

(i) is at least 13 years of age but below 17 years of age; and

(ii) does not attain 17 years of age at any time in 2016.

(2)  In this paragraph —

“designated school”, “home‑schooling”, “National Education Quiz” and “Primary School Leaving Examination” have the same meanings as in the Compulsory Education (Exemption) Order;

“non‑schooling member” means a member of the Edusave Pupils Fund who is not schooling at any time during 2016.

Made on 30 December 2015.

NEO KIAN HONG

Permanent Secretary
(Education Development),
Ministry of Education,
Singapore.

[Edun C15-14-007 Vol. 7; AG/LEGIS/SL/87A/2015/4 Vol. 1]