MIGRANT WORKERS (CHILD EDUCATION) REGULATIONS (childeducation)

MIGRANT WORKERS (CHILD EDUCATION)

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 327.220

MIGRANT WORKERS (CHILD EDUCATION)

REGULATIONS

1st October, 2003

LEGAL NOTICE 259 of 2002, as amended by Legal Notice 358 of 2002.

(1) The title of these regulations is the Migrant Workers

(Child Education) Regulations.

(2) These regulations shall apply to the children of migrant

workers of compulsory school age.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires -

''Agreement'' means an agreement between states or between

groups of states to which Malta is a party, reciprocally granting to

citizens of such states or their dependents the right to enter, remain

and reside in and leave the country of such state, to move freely

within such states for such period as may be established in the

agreement and to work or establish, provide or receive services

therein; and ''Agreement State'' and ''citizen of an Agreement State''

shall be construed accordingly; and where a state is a party to such

an Agreement subject to modifications and adaptations, a citizen of

an Agreement State shall also be subject to such modifications or

adaptations as may be prescribed;

''children of migrant workers'' means any child residing in Malta

for whom school attendance is compulsory under Maltese law and

who is a dependent of a migrant worker;

''migrant worker'' means any person who carries out or has

carried out an activity in Malta as an employed or self-employed

person who is a citizen of an Agreement State;

''Minister'' means the Minister responsible for education;

''State school'' means any state financed, controlled and managed

school for students of compulsory school age;

''teacher'' means any person holding a valid teacher's warrant

who is employed by a recognized educational establishment to

teach children of compulsory school age.

(1) It shall be the duty of the State to take appropriate

measures to ensure that free tuition is given to children of migrant

workers in a State school in order to facilitate their initial reception

in the educational environment and the school system of Malta as

the host State, including, in particular, the teaching, as adapted to

the specific needs of such children, of any of the official languages

Malta.

(2) The State shall take measures, within reasonable limits, to

facilitate the eventual re-integration of the children of migrant

workers into their Agreement States of origin, by promoting the

teaching of both the mother tongue and the culture of the country of

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origin of such children in cooperation with such country of origin.

The Minister shall take all necessary measures for the

adequate training of teachers providing tuition to the children of

migrant workers.