(1) No person shall adopt or take recourse to unfair means at any recognised examination.
(2) No person shall aid, abet or conspire in the use of unfair means at any recognised examination.
4. No person, who is not lawfully authorised or permitted by virtue of his duties to do so, shall, before the time fixed for distribution of copies of a question paper to examinees at a recognized examination,-
(a) procure, attempt to procure or possess, such question paper or a portion or a copy thereof; or
(b) impart or offer to impart information which he knows or has reason to believe is related to or is derived from or has a bearing upon such question paper.
5. No person, who is entrusted with any work connected with a recognised examination shall, except in the discharge of his duties, directly or indirectly divulge or cause to be divulged or known to any other person any information or part thereof which he has come in possession in the; discharge of his duties.
6. No person shall procure, possess, distribute or otherwise publicize or cause to be publicized any question paper as being the one or purporting to be the one that is to be given or likely to be given at an ensuring recognised examination.
Short title Definitions Prohibition of use of unfair means at examinations.
Restriction on copies of question paper and offer of information Prevention of leakage by person entrusted with examination work Restriction of fake papers 3
7. No person, save in the discharge of his duties shall,-
(a) during the hours when a recognised examination is conducted at any recognised examination centre or where any evaluation or tabulation work relating to a recognized examination is done; and
(b) two hours preceding the commencement of such examination, evaluation or tabulation work on any date on which such examination is conducted or evaluation or tabulation work is done, commit or cause to be committed any of the following acts within the premises wherein the recognised examination is held or at any place where evaluation or tabulation work is done or at any public or private place within a distance of one hundred metres of such premises of the place of evaluation or tabulation work, namely:-
(i) loitering;
(ii) distributing or otherwise publicizing any paper or other matter relating to such examination; or
(iii) indulging in such other activity as is likely to be prejudicial to the conduct of such examination or is likely to affect the secrecy thereof;
Provided that nothing contained in this section shall apply in respect of bona fide activities of examinees appearing at the examination which is conducted at such examination centre.
8. No person assigned with invigilation work or superintendence of any recognised examination at any centre or any other work connected with such examination or evaluation, tabulation or publication of results of such examination shall refuse, save under circumstances beyond his control, to perform the work or duties so assigned.
9. Whoever contravenes any of the provisions of sections 3 to 8 shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months or with fine which may extend to three thousand rupees but shall not be less than five hundred rupees or with both.