(1) If the examinee, during the public examination, takes an unauthorised help from any person directly or indirectly or from any material written, recorded, copied or printed, in any form whatsoever, or use of any unauthorised electronic or mechanical instrument or gadget, he shall be referred to the examination authority and the decision of the examination authority in such case shall be final.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, in case an examinee appearing in the public examination other than the examination conducted for the recruitment, by the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board or the State Funded Universities, has committed any offence under this Act, he shall be referred to the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board or as the case may be, to the concerned University and the decision of the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board or concerned University, in this case shall be final.
Prevention of use or indulgence in unfair means.
Unauthorised help received by the examinee.
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5. No person authorised by virtue of his duties in conduct of public examination shall, before the time fixed for opening and distribution of question papers-
(a) open, leak or procure or attempt to procure, possess or solve such question paper or any portion or a copy thereof; or
(b) give any confidential information or promise to give such confidential information to any person or examinee, where such confidential information is related to or in reference to such question paper.
6. No person who is not lawfully authorised or permitted by virtue of his duties to do so, shall, before the time fixed for the distribution of question papers-
(a) procure or attempt to procure or possess, such question paper or answer sheet or OMR sheet or any portion or copy thereof in any form; or
(b) impart or offer to impart, such information which he knows or has reason to believe to be related to, or derived from or to have a bearing upon such question paper.
7. No person, who is entrusted or engaged with any work pertaining to public examination shall, except where he is permitted by virtue of his duties so to do, directly or indirectly reveal or cause to be revealed or make known to any other person any information or part thereof which has come to his knowledge by virtue of the work being so entrusted to him.
8. No person who is not entrusted or engaged with the work pertaining to the public examination or conduct of public examination or who is not an examinee, shall enter the premises of the examination centre.
9. No person who is entrusted or engaged with the work pertaining to the public examination shall use or cause to be used any place, other than the examination centre, for the purpose of holding public examination.