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Secondary Education Certificate Examination (Amendment) Regulations, 2025
Statutory Text (5 Articles)
L.N. 246 of 2025
EDUCATION ACT
(CAP. 327)
Secondary Education Certificate Examination (Amendment) Regulations, 2025
IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred upon him by articles 74(5) and 75(6) of
the Education Act (Cap. 327), the Chancellor of the University of Malta has
promulgated the following regulations made by the Senate of the University of
Malta by virtue of the powers conferred upon it by articles 75(3) and 79(b) of the
said Act
Citation
These regulations may be cited as the Secondary Education Certificate
Examination (Amendment) Regulations, 2025 and shall be read and construed as
one with the Secondary Education Certificate Examination Regulations, 2023,
published as Legal Notice 86 of 2023, hereinafter referred to as “the principal
regulations”.
Applicability
These regulations shall apply to the examinations held from January
2026 onwards.
Amendment to regulation 14 of the principal regulations
For paragraph (1) of regulation 14 of the principal regulation there
shall be substituted the following
“14. (1) Marks obtained in the oral component of an examination during the
Main Session shall be retained for the Supplementary Session.”
For paragraph (3) of regulation 14 of the principal regulation there
shall be substituted the following
“(3) A Supplementary Session in the oral component shall be made available
to all candidates who are marked absent for a justified reason in the Main Session of
the oral examination, provided that they are either covered by a medical certificate
indicating that the examination by the medical professional was not done later than
the day of the assessment and submitted to MATSEC on the day of the missed
examination or they are absent for a reason deemed valid by the MATSEC Board.
Candidates who are absent for the oral examination in the Main Session without a valid
reason shall not be awarded any marks and shall not be entitled to a supplementary
oral examination.”
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