Act Number: 39

Act Name: The Delhi Primary Education Act, 1960

Year: 1960

Enactment Date: 1960-09-20

Long Title: An Act to provide for free and compulsory Primary education for children in the Union territory of Delhi.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of Home

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.
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