Section 3: Constitution of IBCC and its functions

3. Constitution of IBCC and its functions.___(l) The existing Inter-Boards Committee of Chairmen is hereby re-constituted and re-structured as the Inter-Boards Coordination Commission to act and deal with the issues relating to the standardization of examination, assessment, evaluation and allied matters connected there to at secondary and higher secondary school levels through coordination along-with recognition of local and foreign qualifications. (2) The IBCC shall be a body corporate having perpetual succession and a common seal with powers to hold, purchase, sell or lease property both movable and immovable and may sue and be sued by its said name. (3) The IBCC shall perform the following function, namely:— (a) shall be a forum for the chairmen or chairpersons or chief executives of member examination boards and other allied member organizations to exchange information, and make recommendations to devise policy for unified implementation at the country level on matters relating to the development and promotion of the academic evaluation, examination, and assessment; (b) authenticate equivalence, attestation and verification of certificates up to higher secondary levels and equivalent having been issued from local or foreign authorized institutions or examining bodies and shall assess deficient subjects, papers and qualifications through evaluation for issuance of equivalency and measurement thereof, as the case may be, up to higher secondary level including tests and assessments for admissions, scholarships etc.; (c) promote curricular and co-curricular activities among member boards or organizations in viable ways and means; (d) transform the examination system in the country by introducing modern assessment and examination techniques and assessment of boards and taking steps as appropriate for the improvement of examination or assessment among the member boards; (e) taking measures for capacity building of the teachers, paper setters, assessors, and examination staff for improvement of examination and assessment among the member boards; (f) regulate foreign examination boards operating in the country; (g) develop and promote national and international linkages with educational and examining bodies with respect to knowledge sharing, educational qualifications, personnel exchange, testing, assessment, and equivalence matters; (h) shall be a forum at the national level to lay down principles of policy for professional capacity building through special studies or research to bring uniformity in examination and assessment at secondary and higher secondary levels throughout the country by adopting ways and means of firm coordination; and (i) perform such other functions,, as may be incidental or conducive to the attainment of the above functions or objectives or needed to be performed in the public interest or referred by the Federal Government. (4) Head office of IBCC shall be in Islamabad and it may establish its regional offices at such places in Pakistan and abroad as it may determine from time to time in accordance with the need in the public interest and as per set procedure to be defined and framed through relevant bodies. (5) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force or any contract or agreement of service, all the employees of Inter -Boards Committee of Chairmen existing immediately before the commencement of this Act shall stand transferred to the Inter-Boards Coordination Commission from the date of commencement of this Act. (6) The legitimate Monetary benefits of employees of IBCC transferred under sub -section (5) shall not be less favorable as admissible to them prior to commencement of this Act and to the member BISE of IBCC forum from Provincial or Federal Government. (7) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, the IBCC shall have academic, financial, and admi nistrative autonomy to proceed further and implement the policy of the government through the division concerned in a broader perspective through coordination with members BISEs and organizations.

Effective date: 2023-04-13

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