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PART III. Approval of persons to be managers.

23. An application for approval to be a manager shall be made to the Director in the prescribed form.

24. (1) On receiving an application in accordance with section 23, the Director shall make such inquiry as he considers necessary and shall determine the application—
 * (a) by approving the applicant to be a manager; or
 * (b) by refusing under section 25 to approve the applicant to be a manager.

(2) On approving an applicant to be a manager under subsection (1), the Director shall issue to the applicant a certificate of approval in the prescribed form.

25. The Director may refuse to approve an applicant to be a manager if it appears to him that the applicant—
 * (a) is not resident in Hong Kong for at least nine months in each year;
 * (b) is not a fit and proper person to be a manager;
 * (c) has been convicted of an offence punishable with imprisonment;
 * (d) is a person in respect of whom a permit to teach has previously been cancelled;
 * (e) has not established that he possesses suitable qualifications or experience to be a manager;
 * (f) cannot perform satisfactorily or is unlikely to perform satisfactorily the duties of a manager;
 * (g) has attained the age of seventy years; or
 * (h) in making or in connexion with any application—
 * (i) for approval to be a manager;
 * (ii) for registration of a school;
 * (iii) for registration as a manager or a teacher; or
 * (iv) to employ a person as a permitted teacher in a school,

has made any statement or furnished any information which is false in any material particular or by reason of the omission of any material particular.