Definitions

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) “Appellate Authority” means an officer appointed or designated by the State Government by notification; (b) “Board” means the Board of Secondary Education, Manipur established under the Manipur Elementary and Secondary Education Act, 1972 as amended from time to time; (c) “children” means boys and girls above the age of six and below the age of eighteen years receiving instructions at any stage of education; (d) “Council” means the Council of Higher Secondary Education, Manipur established under the Manipur Higher Secondary Education, Act, 1992 as amended from time to time; (e) “educational agency” means any person or body of persons or a society or a trust or a private company which has established and is administering and proposes to establish and administer a private school, tutorial home or coaching institute; (f) “elementary education” means education pertaining to Classes-I to VIII and includes all courses of study in the primary and upper primary schools; (g) “higher secondary education” means education pertaining to class XI and XII; (h) “local authority” means a Zilla Parishad, Autonomous District Councils, Municipal Corporation Municipal Council established under an Act; (i) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (j) “private school” means any institution imparting nursery, elementary, secondary and higher secondary education established or maintained and administered by any person or body of persons but does not include a school- (i) established and administered or maintained by the Central Government or the State Government or any local authority or any other authority designated or sponsored by the Central Government or the State Government; and (ii) providing or imparting only religious instruction, but not any other instruction; (k) “Registering Authority” means an Officer or authority appointed or authorized by the State Government by notification, to perform the functions and discharge the duties of the registering authority under all or any of the provisons of this Act for area or for such purposes or as may be specified in the notification; by rules to exercise all or any of the powers of the Registering Authority under this Act; (l) “rules” means the rules made under this Act; and (m) “secondary education” means education pertaining to Class-IX and X and includes courses of study equivalent thereof.