Definitions

Definitions.—

1. (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires: -
2. (1) “academic year” means the year specified by the appropriate authority or, as the case may be, any Board or Council to which respective school is affiliated;
3. (2) “aggrieved parents group” means any group of parents of the students, not comprising less than 15 per cent of the total parents of the students of the affected standard or school, as the case may be, who are aggrieved by any decision under the Act;
4. (3) “Board” means Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), Indian Council of Secondary Education (ICSE), International Baccalaureate (IB), International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGSE), or any other Board notified by the Government from time to time;
5. (4) “District” means the education districts of Government of NCT of Delhi as prescribed by Director of Education from time to time;
6. (5) “District Fee Appellate Committee” means the District Fee Appellate Committee constituted under Section 6 of this Act;
7. (6) “fee” means any amount, by whatever name called, collected directly or indirectly by a school during the course of study, fixed in accordance with section 5 and includes, as applicable, the following:
   • (i) tuition fee including curriculum essential;
   • (ii) term fee, which shall not exceed one month tuition fee per term;
   • (iii) library fee;
   • (iv) laboratory fee;
   • (v) caution money; Explanation. — “caution money” means the deposit of money for the purposes of handling or damage of laboratory instruments, library deposit, for sports instruments and other such purposes;
   • (vi) examination fee;
   • (vii) hostel fee and mess charges;
   • (viii) physical education fee;
   • (ix) development fees; Explanation.— Where the student is admitted into the school having the facility to undertake education upto the tenth standard or any standard below it, the student shall not be required to pay the fee once again;
   • (x) deposit as security amount or amount payable for any curricular or co- curricular item as may be prescribed.
8. (7) "Government" means the Lieutenant Governor of the National Capital Territory of Delhi appointed by the President under article 239 and designated as such under article 239AA of the Constitution;
9. (8) “Management”, in relation to a school, means the Managing Committee and includes a body of individuals who are entrusted with management of any recognised private school;
10. (9) “Parent-Teachers Association” means the Parent-Teachers Association constituted under Delhi School Education Act, 1973 and Rules made there under;
11. (10) “prescribed” means prescribed under the Rules made under this Act or by order issued by the Director of Education;
12. (11) “Revision Committee” means the Revision Committee constituted under Section 9;
13. (12) “Rules” means the rules made under this Act;
14. (13) “School” means and includes a private unaided pre-primary school, primary school, school imparting elementary education, secondary school, higher secondary school, senior secondary school, recognised or un-recognised by the Government or managed by any management or affiliated to any Indian or foreign course or Board, including the schools run by the minority educational institutions and schools given land on concessional rates by Government agencies as applicable;
15. (14) “School Level Fee Regulation Committee” means the Committee constituted under clause
    • (b) of sub-section
16. (1) of Section 4;
17. (15) All words and expressions used herein but not defined in this Act and defined in the Delhi School Education Act, 1973 and Rules made thereunder, have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the said Act and Rules;