Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (1) "Affiliation" means formal enrolment of a school into the list of approved schools of the Board for the purpose of admission to the privileges of the Board including its examination; (2) "Appointed day" means the date or dates on which the remaining provisions of the Act are brought into force under sub-section (3) of section 1; (3) "Board" means the Board established under the Act; (4) "Chairman of the Board" means the person appointed as Chairman of the Board constituted under the Act; † The provisions of section 2 to 49 and 51 of the Act came into force with effect from 01-05-2006 vide Notification published in the Gazette of Puducherry No.6 dated 07-02-2006 386 (5) "Director of School Education" means the Director of School Education, Puducherry and includes any other officer authorised by him to perform all or any of the functions of the Director under this Act; (6) "Directorate of School Education" means Directorate of School Education, Government of Puducherry; (7) "Final examination" means the Secondary School Leaving Examination or the Higher Secondary Course Certificate Examination or such other examinations as may be conducted or caused to be conducted by the Board; (8) "Government" means the Administrator or the Union Territory of Puducherry appointed by the President of India under article 239 of the Constitution; (9) "Headmaster" means the person incharge of the academic administration of a high school affiliated to the Board as such; (10) "Higher Secondary Education" means such general, technical, vocational or special education (including any combined course thereof) which is designed to meet the educational needs of the period of adolescence and which follows, immediately the secondary education and precedes immediately the stage of education controlled by the University leading to grant of Bachelor’s Degree but does not include such technical education as immediately follows secondary education, and affiliated to such educational authorities as are dealing exclusively with technical education and leading to grant of diplomas; (11) "High School" means a school affiliated as such to the Board under clause (1) of section 6; (12) "Higher Secondary School" means a school affiliated as such to the Board under clause (1) of section 6; (13) "Institution" means an academic institution imparting secondary or higher secondary education or such other courses of education as are approved or dealt by the Board; (14) "Prescribed" means prescribed by rules and regulations made under this Act; (15) "Primary education" means education imparted in a primary school recognised as such by the Government; (16) "Principal" means the person incharge of the academic administration of a higher secondary school affiliated to the Board as such; 387 (17) "Regulation" means regulation made by the Government under section 47 and by the Board under section 46 of the Act; (18) "Secondary education" means such general, technical, vocational or special education (including any combined courses thereof) which is designed to meet the educational needs of the period of adolescence and which follows, immediately the primary education and precedes immediately higher secondary education; (19) "Teacher" means a member of the teaching staff other than the Headmaster of a high school or Principal of a higher secondary school affiliated as such to the Board; (20) "Territory" means the Union Territory of Puducherry; (21) "Text-book" in relation to an examination under this Act means any book recommended or otherwise sanctioned by the Board for use in that examination. CHAPTER - II Establishment and incorporation of the Board