(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Minister may make regulations generally for the proper carrying out of the goals and objectives of this Act.
(2) Despite subsection (1), the Minister may make regulations—
(a) concerning the management and conduct of public schools and assisted schools;
(b) concerning the control and management and conduct and registration of private educational institutions and in particular in respect of—
(i) the size of the classrooms and their equipment, the number of students that may occupy each classroom and the necessary sanitary facilities to be provided,
(ii) the registers and other records to be kept by proprietors of schools and the particulars to be furnished to the Ministry by the proprietors,
(iii) the suitability of premises,
(iv) the suitability of the curriculum and courses and methods of instruction, and
(v) the effective carrying out of the provisions of this Act in respect of private educational institutions;
(c) prescribing the standard to which the premises of educational institutions are to conform;
(d) concerning the purposes for which the premises of a public school may be used;
(e) prescribing the financial or other assistance and the conditions subject to which such assistance is given to any educational institution, or class of educational institutions specified in such regulations;
(f) concerning the admission of students to public schools and assisted schools, the discipline of such students, the keeping by public schools and assisted schools of a school record of each student, the particulars to be included in the record and the disposal of the record;
(g) concerning the admission of persons to teachers' colleges and the conditions of admission;
(h) respecting—
(i) the admission or transfer of students to public secondary schools and assisted secondary schools, and
(ii) the qualifying examinations for admission;
(i) concerning the management and accounting by principals and teachers of public schools and assisted schools of—
(i) moneys or property payable to or vested in the school,
(ii) moneys derived from fund-raising activities,
(iii) moneys and other property derived by way of gift, bequest, trust, or donations, or in any other manner whatsoever;
(j) prescribing the division into which students of teachers' colleges are to be classified and the conditions for the selection of students for those divisions and for their admission to or continuation, in or removal from, teachers colleges in those divisions;
(k) prescribing the course and curricula for students of the various divisions in teachers' colleges;
(l) providing for the certification and registration of teachers completing courses of training;
(m) concerning the terms of employment including grading, promotion, and leave and payment of salaries and other remuneration to teachers;
(n) concerning the establishment, administration, organisation, inspection and classification and discontinuance of schools, including pre-primary schools and schools for children with special needs;
(o) concerning the award of bursaries, grants and other financial assistance for tertiary education and specifying the value and other condition subject to which grants, and bursaries may be held or other financial assistance given;
(p) prescribing the academic year, hours of school, terms and vacations of public schools and assisted schools;
(q) prescribing the cases in which, and the matters for which, fees may be charged in public schools;
(r) concerning the inspection of public schools, assisted schools and private educational institutions;
(s) concerning the constitution, rights, powers and responsibilities of Student Councils and of the National Students Council;
(t) embodying any collective agreement arrived at between the Ministry of Education and the Saint Lucia Union of Teachers concerning the conditions of service of teachers represented by that union, or between the Ministry and any other body representing members of the teaching profession in respect of such members; and
(u) prescribing anything which by this Act is to be prescribed.