Gujarat Compulsory Primary Education Act, 1961

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    "title": "Gujarat Compulsory Primary Education Act, 1961",
    "short_title": "Gujarat Compulsory Primary Education Act, 1961",
    "act_number": "Gujarat Act No. 61 of 1961",
    "act_year": 1961,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Gujarat",
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    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "Gujarat Compulsory Primary Education Act, 1961",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(a) \"academic year\" means the year beginning on such date as a local authority may specify with respect to any area of compulsion or with respect to approved school generally or any approved school or class of any approved schools in particular within its jurisdiction;\n(b) \"approved school\" means any school in any area of compulsion within the jurisdiction of a local authority imparting primary education which-\n(i) is under the management of the State Government or the local authority, or\n(ii) being under any other management, is recognised by the local authority, or the State Government or an officer authorised by it in this behalf as an approved school for the purposes of this Act;\n(c) \"area of compulsion\" means any area in which primary education is declared to be compulsory under section 4 or 16;\n(d) \"attendance authority\" means any person appointed to be an attendance authority under section 7;\n(e) \"to attend an approved school\" means to be present for instruction at an approved school on so many days in an academic year and at such time or times on each one of those days as may be fixed by the local authority concerned;\n(f) \"child\" means a boy or girl within such age-group not being less than six or more than fourteen years, as may be specified in a declaration made under section 4 or 16;\n(g) \"Director\" means an officer appointed by the State Government as the Director of Education and includes any officer who may be authorised by the State Government to perform all or any of the functions of the Director under this Act;\n(h) \"local authority\" means a District School Board, a Municipal Corporation, an authorised Municipality, a cantonment Board or an authority constituted by or under any law for the time being in force, or any person or body of persons empowered by the State Government to control primary education in any area specified by the State Government;\n(i) \"parent\" in relation to any child includes a guardian and every person who has the actual custody of the child;\n(j) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;\n(k) \"primary education\" means education in such subjects and upto such standard not beyond the seventh standard as may by general or special order from time to time be determined by the State Government;\n(l) \"special school\" means any institution which imparts such primary education as in the opinion of the State Government or the local authority is suitable for children suffering from any physical or mental defect;\n(m) words and expressions used but not defined in this Act shall, have the meanings respectively assigned to them under the Bombay Primary Education Act, 1947 (Bombay LXI of 1957) or as the case may be, the Saurashtra Primary Education Act, 1956 (Saurashtra XXX11I of 1956).",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Schemes for primary education.",
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            "content": "(a) proposed area of compulsion;\n(b) the census of children of the age to which the scheme shall apply classified according to age and languages spoken by the children;\n(c) a list of existing approved schools and the schools, if any, proposed to be opened or recognised for the purpose, classified by languages in which instruction is or is proposed to be imparted;\n(d) a schedule of existing and proposed teaching and non-teaching staff including clerks and inferior servants;\n(e) the recurring and non-recurring cost of the scheme;\n(f) a copy of the resolution of the local authority agreeing to bear its share of the additional recurring and non-recurring cost;\n(g) such other particulars as may be prescribed.",
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            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Primary education to be compulsory in areas covered by schemes.",
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        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Grants-in-aid.",
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        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Local authority to prepare list of children.",
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        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Attendance of authorities.",
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        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Attendance authority to notify parents.",
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        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Parent to cause child to attend school.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Reasonable excuse for non-attendance.",
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            "content": "(a) that there is no approved school within the prescribed distance from his residence in which instruction is given in the language spoken by the child;\n(b) that the child is receiving instruction in some other manner which is declared to be satisfactory by the State Government or by the local authority of has received a certificate from the attendance authority of having completed primary education upto the standard included in the scheme applicable to him;\n(c) that the child suffers from physical or which prevents him from attendance;\n(d) that after due application, entrance to an approved school has been refused to the child and there is no other approved school to which he can be admitted within the prescribed distance, until such time as the parent is notified by the attendance authority that the child can be admitted;\n(e) that there is no approved school in the locality to which the parent can send the child without exposing him to religious instruction to which the parent objects;\n(f) that there is any other compelling circumstance which prevents the child from attending school, provided the same is certified as such by the attendance authority;\n(g) such other circumstances as may be prescribed.",
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        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Special schools for physically or mentally deficient children.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Special provision for part-time education in certain cases.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Attendance orders.",
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            "content": "(i) that he is no longer the parent in respect of the child; or\n(ii) that circumstances have arisen which provide a reasonable excuse for non-attendance of the child in accordance with the order;",
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        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Penalty for employing child to whom scheme applies.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Primary education to be free.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Failure of local authority to prepare or implement scheme.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "17. Penalty for contravention of section 13.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 16
        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Power to withdraw, modify or suspend scheme of compulsion.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Courts competent to try offences under sections 14 and 17.",
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            "content": "(a) if the accused resides in a town or village where a, judicial Magistrate holds his court, the court of such Magistrate;\n(b) if the accused resides within the limits of the jurisdiction of a nyaya panchayat which has been empowered to take cognizance of and try such offence under clause (d) of section 75 read with sub-sections (3) and (5) of section 64 of the Bombay Village Panchayats Act, 1958 (Bombay Ill of 1959), such nyaya panchayat ; and\n(c) if the accused resides else where, the primary schools panchayat constituted under section 24 within the limits of the jurisdiction of which the accused resides\n(d) shall be the court competent to take cognizance of such offence.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Cognizance of offences.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Certain persons to be public servants.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 20
        },
        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. Protection of action taken in good faith.",
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            "content": "",
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        },
        {
            "number": "23",
            "title": "23. Delegation of powers.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "24. Constitutions powers and procedure of primary schools panchayats.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 23
        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "25. Certificate of Head Teacher to be conclusive evidence of parent's failure to comply with section 17.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 24
        },
        {
            "number": "26",
            "title": "26. Saving of pending proceedings.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 25
        },
        {
            "number": "27",
            "title": "27. Power to make rules.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "28",
            "title": "28. Repeal and Savings.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "29",
            "title": "29. Act to override certain other Acts.",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "guj027",
        "Act Number": "Gujarat Act No. 61 of 1961",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1961",
        "Short Title": "Gujarat Compulsory Primary Education Act, 1961",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Gujarat"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}