ADVOKS GLOBAL · KENYA
Early Childhood Education Act
68. Regulations
Edition: 2022-12-31 · In force
68. Regulations
(1)The Cabinet Secretary may, in consultation with the Council of County Governors, make regulations generally for the better carrying out of the provisions of this Act.(2)The Cabinet Secretary shall, in consultation with the Teachers Service Commission and the Council of County Governors, prescribe minimum standards relating to schemes of service for early childhood teachers within one year of enactment of this Act.(3)Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the Cabinet Secretary may—(a)prescribe minimum standards relating to the following matters—(i)premises and facilities;(ii)programmes of education;(iii)practices in relation to children's learning and development;(iv)staffing and parental or caregiver participation;(vi)implementation of the curriculum framework;(vii)communication and consultation with parents;(viii)the operation or administration of early childhood education services in a manner that ensures the health, comfort, care, education, and safety of children attending licensed early childhood services;(b)limit or regulate the numbers of children who may attend a registered education centre;(c)provide for the grant, duration, expiry, renewal, suspension, transfer, reclassification, and cancellation of registration certificates of one or more specified kinds for service providers for each kind of early childhood service;(d)prescribe the conditions subject to which such registration certificates may be granted, renewed or transferred and the fees payable in respect of the grant, renewal, and transfer of such certificates;(e)prescribe conditions governing, or that may be imposed in respect of, registered education centres and the duties of their service providers;(f)prescribe the records to be kept by education centres in respect of children attending registered centres; and(g)prescribe fees required to be paid under this Act.(4)Regulations made under subsection (2) may prescribe different standards and other requirements—(a)for early childhood services of different types or descriptions; and(b)in respect of different kinds of registrations.(5)For the purposes of Article 94(6) of the Constitution—(a)the authority of the Cabinet Secretary to make regulations shall be limited to bringing into effect the provisions of this Act and the fulfilment of the objectives specified under subsection (1); and(b)the principles and standards set out under the Interpretation and General Provisions Act (Cap. 2) and the Statutory Instruments Act (Cap. 2A) in relation to subsidiary legislation shall apply to regulations made under this Act.