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Amendments of certain enactments. SCHEDULE. * * * * STATEMENTS OF OBJECTS AND REASONS I Act 16 of 1966.- At present, an Examination Unit as part of the Department of Public Instruction is conducting about 67 Public Examination including the S.S.L.C. Examination. For the efficient conduct of the S.S.L.C. Examination and other Public Examinations and for the timely declaration of result and expeditious disposal of all matters relating to Public Examinations, it is felt expedient to establish an independent Board with statutory powers. Hence this Bill. (Published in the Mysore Gazette (Extraordinary) Part IV-2A dated 27-1- 1966 as No 12 at page 22.) II Amending Act 9 of 1976.- Under explanation to sub-section (3) of section 25 of Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board Act, 1966, the year means the year commencing on first day of August. This does not synchronise with the official Year of Government thus causing inconvenience in compiling the accounts of the Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board. Secondary Education Examination [1966: KAR. ACT 16 298 It is, therefore, proposed to adapt the year of the Board from 1st of April of every year to end of March of subsequent year to synchronise with the official year of Government. It is proposed to give effect to this change immediately with a proviso i.e., in respect of the year 1975-76, the year shall mean the period of eight months commencing on the first day of August 1975 and ending with the thirty-first day of March 1976. Hence this Bill. (Published in the Part IV-2A of Karnataka Gazette (Extraordinary) Part IV-2A dated 31.03.1976 as No. 628.) III Amendment Act 19 of 1977.- As per sub-clauses (a) and (b) of clause (A) of sub-section (4) of section 4 of the Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board, Act 1966, the Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board shall consist of, among others, two Divisional Deputy Directors of Public Instruction and one District Educational Officer. In pursuance of the re-organisation of the Department of Public Instruction in 1970 every revenue district is headed by an officer of the rank of a Deputy Director of Public Instruction instead of the District Education Officer. Similarly, each division corresponding to the revenue division is headed by Joint Director of Public Instruction instead of the Divisional Deputy Directors of Public Instruction. In view of the changes made in respect of the designation of the above referred two officers, it has become necessary to make consequential amendments in the Act. Hence the Bill. (Published in the Karnataka Gazette (Extraordinary) Part IV-2A dated 17.06.1977 as No. 490). IV Amendment Act 1 of 1995.- It is considered necessary to provide for planned development of educational institutions, inculcation of healthy educational practice, maintenance and improvement in the, standards of education and better organisation, discipline and control over educational institutions in the State with a view to fostering the harmonious development of the mental and physical faculties of students and cultivating a scientific and secular outlook through education. Hence the Bill. (Published in the Karnataka Gazette (Extraordinary) Part IV-2A dated 07.07.1983 at page 291) 1966: KAR. ACT 16] Secondary Education Examination 299 V Amendment Act 18 of 1995.- Sub-section (2) of section 20 of the Karanataka Secondary Education Examination Board Act, 1966 provides that the Board shall pay every year out of the Board fund to the State Government such amount as the State Government may determine on account of salary, pension, leave and other allowances of the Chairman, the Secretary and other officers and servants of the Board. However as the Chairmen, the Secretary, other officers and officials of the Board are Government servants and draw their pay and allowances from the consolidated fund of the State, it is proposed to omit the said provision. Hence the Bill. (Published in the Karnataka Gazette (Extraordinary) Part IV-2A dated 17.04.1995 as No. 464) VI Amendment Act 14 of 2003.- It is considered necessary to amend the Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board Act, 1966 to include Composite Junior College within the definition of recognised High School and to include the Director, Pre-Univerrsity or his nominee; the Director D.S.E.R.T; the Director Secondary Education and the Director of the Board incharge of other examinations as Ex-officio members of the Board. Hence the Bill. (Published in the Karnataka Gazette (Extraordinary) Part IVA dated 3.4.2003 as No.357 Vide File No. SAMVYASHAE 27 SHASANA 2002) VII Amendment Act 9 of 2006.- It is considered necessary to amend the Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board Act, 1966 so as to provide for laying of audited reports of the Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board before each house of the legislature. In view of the recommendation of the Committee, on papers laid on the table of the House. Hence the Bill. (L.A. Bill No. 4 of 2006) Secondary Education Examination [1966: KAR. ACT 16 300 1[KARNATAKA]1 ACT No. 16 OF 1966. (First published in the 1[Karnataka]1 Gazette dated the Fifth day of May, 1966). THE 1[KARNATAKA]1 SECONDARY EDUCATION EXAMINATION BOARD ACT, 1966. (Received the assent of the Governor on the Twenty-seventh day of April, 1966) (As Amended by 9 of 1976, 19 of 1977, 1 of 1995, 18 of 1995, 14 of 2003 and 9 of 2006) An Act to provide for the establishment of a Secondary Education Examination Board for the 1[State of Karnataka]1. WHEREAS it is expedient to establish a Board for the purpose of holding and conducting certain public examinations; BE it enacted by the 1[Karnataka]1 State Legislature in the Seventeenth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-