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Section 13: No capitation fee and screening procedure for admission

Rte Act 2009State Act of Punjab · Act 35 of 2009

(1) No school or person shall, while admitting a child, collect any capitation fee and subject the child or his or her parents or guardian to any screening procedure.

(2) Any school or person, if in contravention of the provisions of sub-section (1),—

(a) receives capitation fee, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to ten times the capitation fee charged;

(b) subjects a child to screening procedure, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to twenty-five thousand rupees for the first contravention and fifty thousand rupees for each subsequent contraventions.

Where this provision sits

ActRte Act 2009
Section13
Marginal noteNo capitation fee and screening procedure for admission
JurisdictionState of Punjab
StatusIn force as published by the source
Judgments citing it1

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