Definitions

In this Act unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,—

1. (1) "Administrative Officer" means an officer appointed under section 21 or 22;
2. (2) "Approved school" means a primary school maintained by the State Government or by a school board or Zilla Parishad or by an authorized municipality or which is for the time being recognized as such by a school board, or Zilla Parishad or by the State Government or by an officer authorized by it in this behalf;
3. (3) "Area of compulsion" means the area in which primary education upto any standard is compulsory;
4. (4) "Area of an authorized municipality" means the area comprised within the limits of such municipality and shall include the area of a non-authorised municipality approved schools in which vest in or are controlled by the authorized municipality;
5. (5) "To attend an approved school" means to be present for instruction at such school on such days and on such time and for such period on each day as may be required by the regulations framed by the school board or, as the case may be, Zilla Parishad;
6. (6) "Authorized Municipality" means a municipality which is authorised by the State Government under sub-section
7. (1) of section 16 to control all approved schools within its area;
8. (7) "Child" means a boy or girl whose age is not less than six and not more than fourteen years at the beginning of the school year. Explanation.—For the purposes of this definition, "school year" shall mean the year beginning with such date as the school Board or, as the case may be, Zilla Parishad may, with the sanction of the Director, fix;
9. (8) "Director" means the Director of Education;
10. (9) "district" in clause
    • (h) of section 5 and in sections 6 and 19 means the district as formed under the Bombay Land Revenue Code, 1879, and elsewhere the area comprised in a district so formed excluding the areas of authorized municipalities and cantonments;
11. (10) "Zilla Parishad" means a Zilla Parishad constituted under the Maharashtra Zilla Parishads and Panchayat Samitis Act, 1961;
12. (11) "Municipal School Board" means a school board constituted for the area of an authorized municipality under section 3;
13. (12) "Non-authorized Municipality" means a municipality other than an authorized municipality;
14. (13) "Parent" includes a guardian or any person who has the custody of a child; (13A) "Parishad Education Officer" means the Parishad Education Officer of a Zilla Parishad;
15. (14) "Prescribed" means prescribed by the rules made under this Act;
16. (15) "Primary Education" means education in such subjects and up to such standards, as may be determined by the State Government from time to time;
17. (16) "Primary Education Fund" means the fund maintained under section 44;
18. (17) "Primary School" means a school or a part of a school in which primary education up to any standard is imparted;
19. (18) "Board of Primary Education" means the board constituted under section 58;
20. (19) "School Board" means a municipal school board;
21. (20) "Assistant Teacher (Probationary)" means a member of base teaching cadre appointed on honorarium and subject to such terms and conditions as specified in the Government Resolution, published in the Maharashtra Government Gazette, Extraordinary, No. 12, Part I-Central, Sub-Section, dated the 15th February 2007, for eventual appointment as a teacher;
22. (21) "teacher" means a member of the teaching staff and includes the head of a school.