Chapter I PRELIMINARY

1.

1. (1) This Act may be called the Gujarat Secondary 3[and Higher Secondary] Education Act, 1972.
2. (2) It extends to the whole of the State of Gujarat.
3. (3) This section shall come into force at once; and the remaining provisions of this Act shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:–

1. (a) “appointed day” means the date on which the remaining provisions of this Act come into force under sub-section

1. (3) of section 1;
   • (b) “Board” means the Gujarat Secondary 4[and Higher Secondary] Education Board established under section 3 ;
   • (c) “by-laws” means by-laws made by the Board under section 55;
   • (d) “Chairman” means the Chairman of the Board;
   • (e) “Committee” means a Committee appointed under section 18;
   • (f) “Deputy Chairman” means the Deputy Chairman of the Board;
   • (g) “guaranteed staff” means the staff comprising teachers and members of the non-teaching staff, the terms and conditions of whose service in a Government secondary school 5[or a Government higher secondary school] are, on their transfer to a private secondary school 6[or private higher secondary school] guaranteed by the State Government;
   • (h) “headmaster” means the head of the teaching and non-teacher staff of a secondary school 1[or a higher secondary school] by whatever style designated;
   • (hh) 2[“higher secondary education” means education including post basic education from eleventh standard to twelth standard;
   • (hhh) “higher secondary school’ means a school imparting higher secondary education;
   • (hhhh) “Higher Secondary School Certificate Examination” means an examination of the students in the twelth standard;]
     • (i) “hostel” means a unit of residence of students maintained by a registered school;
   • (j) “manager” in relation to any school means a person or a body of persons in charge of the control or management of the school;
   • (k) “non-teaching staff” means such staff of a registered school, as is appointed to perform any duty or function other than that of teaching;
   • (l) “post basic education” means secondary education 3[or higher secondary education] imparted through a productive craft;
   • (m) “post basic school’ means a school imparting post basic education;
   • (n) “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations; 4[(nn) “private higher secondary school” means higher secondary school which is not owned, managed or sponsored by the Central or State Government;]
   • (o) “private secondary school” means a secondary school which is not owned, managed or sponsored by the Central or State Government;
   • (p) “protected teacher” means a persons who before 29th March, 1965 taught in any school any subject in any of the standards fifth to seventh which before the said date formed part of secondary education, and who continues to teach in a school any subject in any of such standards which after the said date form part of primary education and whose rights in relation to pay and pay-scales are protected under an order of the State Government;
   • (q) “recognised school” means a secondary school or a post basic school recognised by the Director of Education, Gujarat State, or an officer authorised by him in this behalf or, a high school registered by any University;
   • (r) “register” means the Register of Secondary School 5[or the Register of Higher Secondary Schools] for the State of Gujarat prepared and maintained under this Act; “registered school” means a secondary school 6[or a higher secondary school] or a post basic school registered by the Board under section 31 ;
   • (t) “regulations” means regulations made under section 53 or 54; 7 [(u) “secondary education” means education including post basic education from 8[ ninth] standard to tenth standard;]
     • (v) “secondary school” means a school imparting secondary education; 9[(w) “Secondary School Certificate Examination” means an examination of the student in the tenth standard;]
     • (x) “teacher” means a teacher of a registered school but does not include a headmaster; 1[ * * * * * * ]
   • (z) “University” means a University established by any law in the State of Gujarat;
   • (aa) the expression “primary education” shall have the meaning assigned to it in the 2[ * * * * *] and the Bombay Primary Education Act, 1947.