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THE CONSTITUTION, MADE UNDERSTANDABLE

Article 28
Freedom as to attendance at religious instruction or religious worship in certain educational institutions

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Article 28 / Part III

Freedom as to attendance at religious instruction or religious worship in certain educational institutions

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THE PLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE

What does this mean?

Religious instruction and participation rules differ across educational institutions according to their funding, recognition and founding arrangements. In covered institutions, participation in religious instruction or worship requires the stated consent.

Enforceable constitutional rights, their limits, protective exceptions and the courts' remedies.

PURPOSE & CONTEXT

Why is this provision here?

The relationship between education and religious activity depends on public funding, recognition and consent. This distinguishes those situations rather than giving one undifferentiated rule.

Historical evidence

This Article number belongs to the original constitutional framework, but its present wording may include later amendments or substitutions. A provision-specific original Assembly debate has not been verified here. The explanation of function above is editorial inference from the text, not an attributed single motive of the framers. The original draft-making archive is a research resource, not proof of a particular historical reason.

The explanation of purpose is an editorial reading of the provision. A drafting motive is attributed only where a linked historical source supports it.

Limits, exceptions & reading carefully

Educational summary of the linked source text. Exceptions, provisos, implementing laws and applicable judgments must be read before applying it to a real case.

Read the official constitutional text
28. Freedom as to attendance at religious instruction or religious worship in certain educational institutions.—(1) No religious instruction shall be provided in any educational institution wholly maintained out of State funds. (2) Nothing in clause (1) shall apply to an educational institution which is administered by the State but has been established under any endowment or trust which requires that religious instruction shall be imparted in such institution. (3) No person attending any educational institution recognised by the State or receiving aid out of State funds shall be required to take part in any religious instruction that may be imparted in such institution or to attend any religious worship that may be conducted in such institution or in any premises attached thereto unless such person or, if such person is a minor, his guardian has given his consent thereto.

Extracted from the Legislative Department’s May 2026 edition. Page footnotes may refer to neighbouring provisions; check their markers in the PDF. Inclusion in this edition does not by itself establish commencement or judicial effect.