(1) This Act may be called the Gujarat Public Examination (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2023.
(2) It shall come into force on such date, as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
(a) “conduct public examination” means and includes preparation, printing, supervision, coding, processing, distribution of question papers, evaluation, declaration of result, etc.;
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(b) “examinee” means a person who has been granted permission by examination authority to appear in the public examination and includes a person authorized to act as scribe on his behalf in the public examination;
(c) “examination authority” means an examination authority as specified in the Schedule or such other authority as may be specified by the State Government by notification in the Official Gazette;
(d) “examination center” means such premises, as may be specified by the examination authority to conduct public examination;
(e) “inspection team” means persons authorised by the examination authority to inspect any examination center;
(f) “organized crime” means an unlawful activity committed by a person or a group of persons indulging in unfair means to pursue or promote a shared interest for wrongful gains;
(g) “public examination” means any examination conducted by the examination authority as specified in the Schedule or conducted by such other authority as may be notified by the State Government under clause (c);
(h) “Schedule” means the Schedule appended to this Act;
(i) “State Government” means the Government of Gujarat;
(j) “supervisory staff” includes persons authorised by the examination authority to conduct public examination;
(k) “unfair means” includes,-
(i) in relation to any person including an examinee,
(a) to impersonate or leak or attempt to leak or conspire to leak; or
(b) to procure or attempt to procure or possess or attempt to possess question paper in unauthorised manner; or
(c) to solve or attempt to solve or seek assistance to solve or to assist to solve question paper in unauthorised manner;
(ii) directly or indirectly assists the examinee in any manner whatsoever, in the public examination for monetary or wrongful gains, in relation to any person other than examinee.
3. No person shall use or indulge in any unfair means in any public examination or the conduct of public examination.