Section 15: Interpretation

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-
"Committee" means the Standing Committee on the Accreditation of Correspondence Colleges;
"correspondence college" means any college or institution or any other body which conducts, or is established to conduct, courses of instruction by means of correspondence
between it and its students either by means of written or printed texts, audio or video tapes with optional occasional face-to-face methods of learning, but does not include-
(a) a university or similar institution of higher learning (whether in Nigeria or elsewhere) which awards external degrees or diplomas or which disseminates educational instruction or materials by means of correspondence or by sound or television broadcast;
(b) any correspondence college established solely for religious instruction; or
(c)
any correspondence college entirely maintained and controlled by any Government in the Federation;
"designated officer" has the meaning assigned thereto by section 5 (5) of this Act;
"Minister" means the Minister charged with responsibility for matters relating to education; and "Ministry" shall be construed accordingly;
''proprietor'' means the person who is or holds himself out to be the owner of a correspondence college or the lessee or tenant in the case of leased premises, or the person using premises for the purpose of a correspondence college, or any person that derives or is entitled to any profits or similar benefits from the business of any such college and includes an agent in the case of a correspondence college referred to in section 2 (3) of this Act or the person recognised as proprietor immediately before the coming into force of this Act and references to "person" in this Act shall include, where applicable, references to bodies corporate, firms, trustees or any other association of individuals;
"student" means any person who takes any course of instruction from a correspondence college whether or not he is a student at any other institution.