Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder, the municipal school board shall be responsible for the management and control of all primary schools which vest in the authorised municipality and for the control of all other approved schools within the area of the authorized municipality excepting such as are maintained by the 62[State] Government, and the board shall exercise such powers and perform such duties and functions of the authorized municipality in respect of primary education as may be prescribed. (2) Subject to the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder, a municipal school board shall perform the following duties and functions, namely :— (a) to prepare schemes to be submitted by the authorized municipality to the 62[State ]Government for expansion of primary education and to carry out the provisions of such scheme; (b) to disburse monies from the primary education fund in accordance with the budget sanctioned by the authorized municipality; (c) to perform the duties and functions specified in clauses (f) to (g) and (l) and (n) of sub-section (2) of section 13; (d) to perform such other duties and functions as may be prescribed. (3) The municipal school board shall, with the sanction, of the Director, make regulations laying down the days, the time and the periods on each day during which a child shall be present for instruction at an approved school. 63[D. Merged Areas.] 63 [18A.(1) In any area administered by virtue of an order made by the Governor General under section 290A of the Government of India Act, 1935, all primary schools with their lands, buildings, records and equipment and all other properties moveable or immoveable, which were vested in, held by or under the control of, Government or a local authority in such area, for the purposes of primary education, immediately before the date on which such order was made, hereinafter in this section referred to as the said date, shall with effect from the said date, if such area has formed part of a district for which a district school board has been constituted, vest in, be held by or be under the control of the district school board, and in other cases , the 62[State] Government. Powers, duties and functions of municipal school boards. Vesting of property and absorption of staff in merged area. 26 Gee. 5. Ch. 2. The Bombay Primary Education Act, 1947 20 of 43 (2) During the period the properties so vest in or are held by or are under the control of the 62[State] Government in any area under sub-section (1), it shall be lawful for the 62[State] Government or such authority as it may appoint in this behalf to exercise in such area all the powers and perform all the duties of a district school board under this Act. (3) All properties vesting in, held by or under the control of, the 64[State] Government under this section shall, on such date as may be notified by the 64[State] Government in the Official Gazette, vest in, be held by or be under the control of, the district school board constituted for the district in which such area is situated or such authorized municipality as the 64[State] Government may specify in the notification. (4) The district school board or the authorized municipality or the 64[State] Government, as the case may be, shall take over and employ such primary school teachers and other persons as were employed by or under Government or a local authority immediately before the date notified under sub-section (3) or the said date, as the case may be, for the purposes of primary education on the same terms and conditions on which such teachers or persons were employed immediately before the relevant date or on such terms and conditions as the 64[State] Government may direct. (5) In the event of any question, dispute or doubt arising as to whether any particular property shall so vest in or be held by or be under the control of the district school board, the authorized municipality or the 64[State] Government or any particular staff shall be, so taken over and employed by any of them or any terms and conditions on which such staff shall be taken over and employed, the matter shall be referred to the 64[State] Government whose decision thereon shall be final.] CHAPTER IV. NON-AUTHORIZED MUNICIPALITIES.