State Act

The West Bengal Urban Primary Education Act, 1963

This Act was repealed on a date we do not have by the West Bengal Primary Education Act, 1973 (West Bengal Act XLIII of 1973), s.105(1); it may still apply to matters that began before then.

2. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,— (a) “to attend recognised primary school” means to be present for instruction at such school for so many and on such days in the year and at such time or times on each day as may be determined by the School Committee for such school, subject to such rules as may be made under section 16 and to the orders of the Education Department of the State Government: (b) “child” means a boy or girl who is not less than six years and not more than eleven years of age or of other prescribed age; (c) “Commissioners” mean the persons for the time being appointed or elected to conduct the affairs of a Municipality constituted under the Bengal Municipal Act, 1932, or the Cooch Behar Municipal Act, 1944, and include the Councillors and Aldermen of the Corporation in Chandernagore established under the Chandernagore Municipal Act, 1955; (d) “guardian” means any person on whom the care, nurture or custody of any child falls by law or by natural right or recognised usage, or who has accepted or assumed the care, nurture or custody of any child or to whom the care or custody of any child has been entrusted by any lawful authority; (e) “Municipality” means any place in which the Bengal Municipal Act, 1932, or the Cooch Behar Municipal Act, 1944, is in force, and includes Chandernagore as defined in the Chandernagore Municipal Act, 1955; (f) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under section 16; (g) “primary education” means such elementary education as may, from time to time, be laid down by the Education Department of the State Government by notification in the Official Gazette for primary schools, junior basic schools or for any other type of schools for children; (h) “recognised primary school” means a school or a department of a school appropriated to primary education and for the time being recognised by the Education Department of the State Government for the purposes of such education; (i) “School Committee” means a Committee constituted under section 6.