Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,— (1) "appointed day" means the day appointed under sub-section (3) of section 3; (2) "college" means a college affiliated to a University; (3) "employee" means,— (a) in relation to a non-Government educational institution, any person employed by such institution on whole-time basis, and includes a teacher or a member of non-teaching staff, and (b) in relation to a local authority, any person employed by such local authority on whole-time basis; (4) "Librarian" means a Librarian, Deputy Librarian, Assistant Librarian or any other person discharging the functions of a Librarian on whole-time basis, by whatever name called, appointed by a non-Government educational institution; (5) "local authority" means a Municipal Corporation, Municipality, or Town Committee, but does not include a notified area authority or a Gram Panchayat, Panchayat Samiti or Zilla Parishad; (6) "non-Government educational institution" means an educational institution not maintained or managed by the State Government, and includes— (i) a University, (ii) a non-Government college, Hogher Secondary School recognised as such under the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education Act, 1975, secondary school recognised as such under the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education Act, 1963, primary school managed by a District School Board constituted, or recognised as a primary school, under the Bengal (Rural) Primary Education Act, 1930, or recognised or deemed to be recognised as a primary school under the West Bengal Primary Education Act, 1973, or West Ben. Act VIII of