(1) 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 a candidate, shall enter the premises of the examination center, with intent to disrupt the conduct of the public examination.
(2) No person authorized, engaged or entrusted with the duties to conduct public examination shall, before the time fixed for opening and distribution of question papers:
(a) Open, leak or possess or access or solve or seek assistance to solve such question paper or any portion or a copy thereof in unauthorized manner for monetary or wrongful gain;
(b) Give any confidential information or promise to give such confidential information to any person, where such confidential information is related to or in reference to such question paper for monetary or wrongful gain.
(3) No person, who is entrusted or engaged with any work pertaining to public examination shall, except where he is authorized in furtherance of his duties so to do, reveal or cause to be revealed or make known to any other person any information or part thereof which has come to his knowledge for any undue advantage or wrongful gain.
6. Any person who is appointed as a paper setter for any examination shall not supply or cause to be supplied the question paper drawn by him or a copy thereof or 6 Other offences.
No premises other than examination center shall be used for Public Examination.
Punishment for offences.
communicate the contents of such paper to any person or give publicity thereto in any manner, except in accordance with the instructions given to him in writing by his appointing public examination authority in this behalf.
7. If any person or group of persons or institution commits any unfair means or offence under sections 3, 4, 5 and section 6, the public examination authority or the service provider shall forthwith report the offence to the concerned police authorities and in case the service provider reports the offence to the police authorities shall also inform the public examination authority:
Provided that if the service provider resorts to unfair means and commits the offence or is involved in facilitating an offence, the public examination authority shall report the same to the concerned police authorities.
8. It shall be an offence for the service provider or any person associated with the service provider to cause any premises, other than the examination center, authorized by the public examination authority, to be alternatively used for the purpose of holding public examination, without the written approval of the public examination authority:
Provided that nothing contained in this section shall be an offence where any change in the examination center without prior consent of the public examination authority is due to any force majeure.