Article (22)
General Controls of Violations and Penalties
a. The Ministry may establish a system of progressive penalties to ensure compliance with these
bylaws and any implementing regulations or decrees. The system shall include provisions for
warning and fines; and probation and revocation of the license to operate.
b. The Ministry shall establish a process that provides written warning notice to the school prior
to the imposition of a fine and allows the school to explain its actions and remediate the
violation.
c. The Ministry may establish a schedule of fines to be assessed against a school that violates
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these bylaws or rules adopted under the authority of these bylaws. The minimum amount of
a fine shall be 5,000 aed and the maximum amount of a fine shall be 50,000 aed per offense.
d. The Ministry may assign a probationary status to a license for serious or habitual offenses as
a final step prior to revocation and require that corrective action be taken within a specified
time period.
e. A license may be revoked if:
1. the application is untruthful;
2. the school is operated in substantial deviation from its approved plan of operation;
3. the school becomes financially insolvent;
4. the health and safety of children or staff are at serious risk;
5. the school operates in serious violation of other federal or government rules or
regulations; or
6. any violation of these bylaws that is worthy of the action of revoking a license.
In the case of license revocation, the school shall be placed under financial and administrative
supervision until the end of the school year after the appointment of a person who shall supervise
its activities until the closing date set forth in the Ministerial resolution.
