Definitions

Definitions.-

1. (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
   • (a) "conduct of public examination" means and includes preparation, printing, supervision, coding, processing, storing, transportation, distribution and collection of question papers, answer sheets, OMR sheets and result sheets, evaluation, declaration of result etc;
   • (b) "examination authority" means an examination authority as specified in the Schedule-I;
   • (c) "examination center" means any institution or part thereof or any other place fixed and used for the holding of a public examination and includes the entire premises attached thereto;
   • (d) "examinee" means a person who has been granted permission by the concerning authority to appear in a public examination, and includes a person authorized to act as scribe on his behalf in public examination;
   • (e) "public examination" means examination for the purpose of recruitment to any post under the State Government including autonomous bodies, authorities, boards or corporations as specified in the Schedule-II;
   • (f) "unfair means" includes,-
     • (i) in relation to an examinee, to take unauthorized help in public examination from any person or group directly or indirectly or from any material written, recorded, copied or printed, in any form whatsoever, or use of any unauthorized electronic or mechanical instrument or gadget;
     • (ii) in relation to any person including examinee to impersonate or leak or attempt to leak or conspire to leak, to procure or attempt to procure or possess, to solve or attempt to solve or seek assistance to solve question paper in unauthorized manner or directly or indirectly assist the examinee in the public examination in unauthorized manner.
2. (2) The words and expressions used but not defined, shall have the same meaning assigned to them in the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (Central Act No. 45 of 1860).