Pre-degree Course (Abolition) Act, 1997
No: 3 Dated: Jun, 03 1998
THE PRE-DEGREE COURSE (ABOLITION) ACT, 1997
ACT 3 OF 1998
An Act to abolish Pre-Degree Course in the State of Kerala in a phased manner commencing from the academic year 1997-98 and to provide for matters incidental or ancillary thereto.
Preamble.- WHEREAS the University Grants Commission has been continuously pressing the Government of Kerala to abolish Pre-Degree Course in the Universities in the State;
AND WHEREAS all the other State Governments in India have abolished Pre-Degree Course by accepting 10+2 system of school education;
AND WHEREAS in accordance with the National Education Policy to improve standards of Higher Education, the Government of Kerala consider if necessary to abolish Pre-Degree Course in the Universities in Kerala in a phased manner with effect from the academic year 1997-98 and to make alternative arrangements for the establishment of more number of Higher Secondary Schools in the State of Kerala;
BE it enacted in the Forty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows:--
1. Short title and commencement.--(1) This Act may be called the Pre-degree Course (Abolition) Act, 1997.
(2) Clauses (c) and (d) of sub-section (2) of section 3 shall come into force at once and the remaining provisions of this Act shall be deemed to have come into force on the 3rd day of June, 1997.
2. Definitions.-(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,--
(a) "academic year" means a period of 12 months commencing from the first day of June and ending with the thirty first day of May of the following year;
(b) "Committee" means Empowered Committee constituted by sub-section (2) of section 3;
(c) "University laws" means the Kerala University Act, 1974 (14 of 1974), the Calicut University Act, 1975 (5 of 1975), the Mahatma Gandhi University Act, 1985 (12 of 1985) and the Kannur University Act, 1996 (22 of 1996) and the Statutes, Ordinances, Regulations, the rules and the byelaws made under the said Acts;
(d) "State" means the State of Kerala.
(2) Words and expressions used but not defined in this Act and defined in the University Laws shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the said laws.