(1) No manager of a registered private secondary school 2[or registered Private Higher Secondary School] shall close down the school at any time during an academic year and without giving notice in writing of his intention so to do to the Board at least six months before the date with effect from which the school is proposed to be closed down.
(2) Any person who contravenes the provisions of sub-section (1), shall, on conviction be punished with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees.
1. These words were inserted by Guj. 14 of 2002, s. 13.
2. These words were inserted, ibid., s. 14.
Prohibitions against appointment.
Penalty for contravention of certain provisions.
Penalty for disclosure of particulars of certain documents.
Prohibition against discontinuance of school.
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CHAPTER VIII Miscellaneous.
45. All casual vacancies among the members of the Board or of any Committee shall be filled, as soon as may be, by election or nomination, or appointment or designation, as the case may be, and the person elected, nominated or appointed or designated, in a casual vacancy shall hold office so long only as the member in those place he is elected, nominated, appointed or designated would have held it, if the vacancy had not occurred.
46. Subject to the provisions contained in this Act, no act or proceeding of the Board or of any Committee shall be in valid merely by reason of any vacancy in or any defect in the constitution of, the Board or, as the case may be, the Committee.
47. The Board shall furnish to the State Government such reports, returns, and statements as may be required by the State Government and such further information relating to any matter connected with its work as the State Government may call for.