Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, — (a) “conduct of public examination” means and includes preparation, printing, supervision, coding, processing, distribution of question papers, evaluation, declaration of result, etc.; (b) “examinee” means a person who has been granted permission by examination authority to appear in the public examination and includes a person authorized to act as scribe on his behalf in public examination; (c) “examination authority” includes the Haryana Public Service Commission, Haryana Staff Selection Commission or any other authority or agency or recruitment committee engaged or constituted by the State Government, Haryana Public Service Commission, Haryana Staff Selection Commission or University, from time to time for conducting public examination; (d) “examination center” means such premises, as specified by the examination authority to conduct public examination; (e) “inspection team” means persons authorised by the examination authority to inspect any examination center; (f) “public examination” means examination for the purpose of recruitment to any post under the State Government including autonomous bodies, authorities, boards or corporations; (g) “State Government” means the Government of the State of Haryana in the administrative department; (h) “supervisory staff” includes persons authorised by the examination authority to conduct public examination; Definitions. 218 HARYANA GOVT. GAZ. (EXTRA.), SEPT. 10, 2021 (BHDR. 19, 1943 SAKA) (i) “unfair means” includes,- (i) in relation to an examinee, to take unauthorised help in public examination from any person directly or indirectly or from any material written, recorded, copied or printed, in any form whatsoever, or use of any unauthorised electronic or mechanical instrument or gadget; and (ii) in relation to any person other than the examinee, to impersonate or leak or attempt to leak or conspire to leak or procure or attempt to procure or possess or attempt to possess question paper unauthorisedly, solve or attempt to solve or seek assistance to solve question paper or unauthorisedly directly or indirectly assist the examinee in any manner whatsoever, in the public examination for wrongful gains. (2) Words and expressions used herein and not defined but defined in the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (Central Act 45 of 1860) shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in that Code. Prohibition of use or indulgence in unfair means.