1. (1) This Act may be called the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education
(Amendment) Act, 2019.
(2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification
in the Official Gazette, appoint.
2. In the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 (hereinafter
referred to as the principal Act), for section 16, the following section shall be substituted,
namely:—
“16. (1) There shall be a regular examination in the fifth class and in the eighth
class at the end of every academic year.
(2) If a child fails in the examination referred to in sub-section (1), he shall be
given additional instruction and granted opportunity for re-examination within a period
of two months from the date of declaration of the result.
Substitution
of new
section for
section 16.
35 of 2009.
Examination
and holding
back in
certain cases.
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II — Section 1
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 1] NEW DELHI, FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 2019/PAUSHA 21, 1940 (SAKA)
Separate paging is given to this Part in order that it may be filed as a separate compilation.
REGISTERED NO. DL—(N)04/0007/2003—19
MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE
(Legislative Department)
New Delhi, the 11th January, 2019/Pausha 21, 1940 (Saka)
The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President on the
10th January, 2019, and is hereby published for general information:—
Amendment of
section 38.
(3) The appropriate Government may allow schools to hold back a child in the
fifth class or in the eighth class or in both classes, in such manner and subject to such
conditions as may be prescribed, if he fails in the re-examination referred to in
sub-section (2):
Provided that the appropriate Government may decide not to hold back a child in
any class till the completion of elementary education.
(4) No child shall be expelled from a school till the completion of elementary
education.”.
3. In section 38 of the principal Act, in sub-section (2), after clause (f), the following
clause shall be inserted, namely:—
“(fa) the manner and the conditions subject to which a child may be held back
under sub-section (3) of section 16;”.