Section 14: Registration of Schools

14. Registration of Schools.—(1) No school, other than a school established, owned or controlled by the appropriate Government, after the commencement of this Act, be established or function, without obtaining a certificate of registration from the prescribed authority. (2) The prescribed authority shall issue the certificate of registration in such form, within such period, in such manner, and subject to such conditions, as may be prescribed: Provided that no such registration shall be granted to a school unless it fulfils the prescribed norms and standards. (3) The prescribed authority shall, on the contravention of the conditions of registration, by an order in writing, withdraw registration: Provided that registration shall not be so withdrawn without giving a reasonable opportunity of being heard to such school: Provided further that such order shall contain a direction as to which of the neighbourhood school, the children studying in the so de-registered school, shall be shitted. (4) The appropriate Government or an authorized officer may take such steps as it or he may deem necessary to close a unregistered or de-registered educational institution. (5) Any person who establishes or runs a school without obtaining certificate of registration, or continues to run a school after withdrawal of registration, shall be liable to fine which may extend to two hundred thousand rupees and in case of continuing contraventions, to a fine of twenty five thousand rupees for each day during which such contravention continues.

Effective date: 2012-01-01

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