Section 12:
Special provision for part-time education in certain cases.
(1) If the attendance authority is
satisfied that a child, due to economic or other circumstances connected with the family to which the
child belongs, is unable to attend an approved school in the manner required by or under this Act, it may,
by order and subject to such conditions, if any, as it may think fit to impose, permit the child to attend any
approved school established as a part-time institution or in which primary education is imparted on a
part-time basis.
(2) Any parent who causes a child in respect of whom an order under sub-section (1) has been made
to attend an approved school in the manner specified in the order shall be deemed to have complied with
the provisions of this Act.