West Bengal Board Of Secondary Education Act, 1963
No: 5 Dated: Feb, 20 1963
THE WEST BENGAL BOARD OF SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT, 1963
West Bengal Act V of 1963
An Act to establish a Board of Secondary Education in the State of West Bengal, to define the powers and functions of such Board and to provide for certain other matters connected therewith.
It is hereby enacted as follows: -
1. Short title, extent and commencement: - (1) This Act may be called the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education Act, 1963.
(2) It extends to the whole of West Bengal:
Provided that any institution situated in any other State or in any Union Territory may also, with the sanction of the Government of such State or Union Territory, as the case may be, apply to the Board for recognition and the Board may, subject to such conditions or restrictions as it may, with the approval of the State Government, think fit to impose, grant recognition to such institution.
(3) It shall come into force on such date as that State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
2. Definitions. - In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, -
(a) "Board" means the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education established under this Act;
(aa) "by-law" means a by-law made by the Executive Committee under this Act;
(b) "Head of Institution" means the head of the teaching staff of an Institution, by whatever name he or she may be designated ;
(c) "Institution" means a Secondary School or an educational Institution or part or department of such school or Institution imparting instruction in Secondary Education;
(d) "Managing Committee" used in reference to an Institution includes the Governor or the Governing Body of such an Institution;
(e) "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette;
(f) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(g) "President" means the President of the Board;
(h) "Primary Education" means education imparted in a primary school as defined in any Bengal Act or West Bengal Act or education equivalent thereto;
(i) "recognised" with its grammatical variations, used with reference to Institutions, means recognised under this Act or within the meaning of the West Bengal Secondary Education Act, 1950;
(j) "regulation" means a regulation made by the Board under this Act;
(k) "rule" means a rule made by the State Government under this Act;
(l) "Secondary Education" means general education above the primary education stage provided for students with a view to qualifying them for admission to a certificate, diploma or degree course instituted by a University or by Government or by a Statutory Body and includes, subject to any general or special order of the State Government, -
(i) technical education,
(ii) agricultural education,
(iii) commercial education,
(iv) education for the physically handicapped,
(v) education for the mentally retarded and defectives,
(vi) education in Reformatory schools and jails, or
(vii) any other type of education which the State Government may, in consultation with the Board, specify.
CHAPTER II
The Board
3. Establishment and incorporation of the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education. - (1) The State Government shall, as soon as may be after this Act comes into force, establish a Board named the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education.
(2) The Board shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal, shall be entitled to acquire, hold and dispose of property, to enter into contracts and to do all other things necessary for the purposes of this Act, and shall by its name sue and be sued.