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Forfeiture \r\n16. Cognizance and trial \r\n17. Officers of the Board \r\n18. Delegation of powers \r\n19. Employees to be public servants \r\n20. Fund \r\n21. Budget \r\n22. Maintenance of accounts \r\n23. Annual report \r\n24. Audit \r\n25. Rules \r\n26. Regulations \r\n27. Protection of acts and orders \r\n28. Appeal \r\n29. Act to have overriding effect \r\n30. Repeal and savings \r\nTEXT \r\n1\r\nTHE PUNJAB CURRICULUM AND TEXTBOOK BOARD ACT 2015 \r\n(VI of 2015) \r\n[26th February, 2015] \r\nAn \r\nAct \r\nto provide for the establishment of the Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board. \r\nWhereas it is expedient to make arrangements for the formulation \r\nand implementation of curricula; development and approval of textbooks, \r\nmanuscripts and supplementary reading material relating to textbooks; \r\nproduction of reference and research material in respect of the problems \r\nrelating to the schemes of studies and preparation of textbooks and such \r\nother conduct of research in the field of curricula, textbooks and other \r\nreading material; and, to provide for ancillary matters; \r\nIt is enacted as follows: \r\n1. Short title, extent and commencement. – (1) This Act may be cited \r\nas the Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board Act 2015. \r\n(2) It extends to the whole of the Punjab. \r\n(3) It shall come into force at once. \r\n2. Definitions.– In this Act: \r\n(a) “Advisory Council” means the Advisory Council constituted under the \r\nAct; \r\n(b) “agency \r\n2\r\n[”] means any department or organization or directorate of the \r\nGovernment and includes a corporation or other autonomous or semi -\r\nautonomous body set up by the Government; \r\n(c) “Board” means Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board established \r\nunder the Act; \r\n(d) “Committee” means a committee of the Board; \r\n(e) “Director” means the head of a wing of the Board appointed by the \r\nGovernment; \r\n(f) “Fund” means Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board Fund; \r\n(g) “Government” means Government of the Punjab; \r\n(h) “institution” means a school or an intermediate college and includes \r\nsuch other educational establishment or organization in p ublic or \r\n \r\n1This Act wa s passed by the Punjab Assembly on 23rd February, 2015; assented to by the Governor of the Punjab on 25th \r\nFebruary, 2015; and, was published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 26th February, 2015, Pages 2437-2443. \r\n2Misprinted in the Gazette. \r\nprivate sector as the Government may, by notification, declare as an \r\ninstitution\r\n3\r\n[;] \r\n(i) “Managing Director” means the Managing Director of the Board; \r\n(j) “member” means a member of the Board; \r\n(k) “prescribed” means prescribed by rule s or regulations made under the \r\nAct; \r\n(l) “regulations” mean the regulations framed under the Act; \r\n(m) “rules” mean the rules made under the Act; \r\n(n) “Secretary” means the secretary of the Board; \r\n(o) “supplementary material” includes guides, guess papers , get through \r\nguides or any other reading material ancillary to a textbook, supports \r\nimplementation and enhancement of learning given in curricula and \r\nwhich is printed, published or sold by any person or agency wi th the \r\nprior permission of the Board; and \r\n(p) “textbook” means a book or work developed in accordance with the \r\ncurricula. \r\n3. Establishment and incorporation .– (1) There shall be established a Board \r\nto be known as Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board for carrying out the purposes \r\nof this Act. \r\n(2) The Board shall be a body corporate, shall have power to acquire, ho ld \r\nand transfer property, shall have perpetual succession and common seal and shall \r\nby the said name sue and be sued. \r\n(3) The organizational set-up of the Board shall, amongst others, consist of \r\nthe following five job specific wings: \r\n(a) Curricula Wing; \r\n(b) Manuscripts Wing; \r\n(c) Production Wing; \r\n(d) Administration Wing; \r\n(e) Finance Wing; \r\n(4) A Wing of the Board shall be headed by a Director. \r\n(5) The Board shall consist of the following: \r\n(a) Chairperson; \r\n(b) Secretary to the Government, Finance Department or his nominee not \r\nbelow the rank of an Additional Secretary; \r\n(c) Secretary to the Government, School Education Department or his \r\nnominee not below the rank of an Additional Secretary. \r\n(d) Secretary to the Government, Higher Education Department or his \r\nnominee not below the rank of an Additional Secretary; \r\n \r\n3Misprinted in the Gazette. \r\n(e) Secretary to the Government, Literacy Department or his nominee not \r\nbelow the rank of an Additional Secretary; \r\n(f) Chairman, Punjab Examination Commission or his nominee not below \r\nthe rank of officer BS-19; \r\n(g) Chairman, Punjab Education Foundation or his nominee not below the \r\nrank of officer BS-19; \r\n(h) Programme Director, Directorate of Staff Development; \r\n(i) a Chairman Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education to be \r\nnominated by the Minister for Education; \r\n(j) five persons including at least two women, from amongst the \r\nacademicians, professionals and technocrats, having known and \r\ncertified expertise relating to curricula and textbooks development; \r\n(k) three teachers of schools, one from public sector and one from private \r\nsector including at least one female teacher; \r\n(l) Managing Director; and \r\n(m) a m ember of the Provincial Assembly who is an academician, \r\nprofessional or a technocrat having known expertise relating to \r\ncurricula or textbooks development. \r\n4. Appointment and duties of members .– (1) The Government shall appoint \r\nthe Chairperson and members other than the ex-officio members. \r\n(2) The Chairperson or a member other than an ex-officio member shall: \r\n(a) hold officer for a term of three years unless he resigns or removed from \r\noffice by the Government before the expiry of his tenure; \r\n(b) be eligible for re-appointment; \r\n(c) receive such allowances as the Government may determine; and \r\n(d) perform such duties and functions as are assigned under the Act, rules \r\nand regulations. \r\n(3) A person appointed as chairperson or member shall divest himself of \r\nany other directorship or other interest held by him in any corporation, company or \r\nconcern which has any dealing with the Board. \r\n(4) No act or proceedings of the Board shall be invalid merely on the \r\nground of the existence of any vacancy or any defect in the constitution of the Board. \r\n5. Managing Direc tor.– The Government shall appoint the Managing Director \r\nwho shall be the chief executive officer of the Board and who shall work under the \r\ngeneral supervision of the Board. \r\n6. Disqualification and removal .– (1) No person shall be or shall continue to \r\nbe the chairperson, member or Managing Director who is: \r\n(a) convicted of any offence involving moral turpitude; or \r\n(b) adjudicated as an insolvent; or \r\n(c) declared a lunatic or a person of unsound mind; or \r\n(d) dismissed from the service of Pakistan. \r\n(2) The Go vernment may, by order in writing, remove the Chairperson, \r\nmember or Managing Director, if he: \r\n(a) refuses or fails to discharge or becomes, in the opinion of the \r\nGovernment, incapable of discharging his responsibilities under this \r\nAct; or \r\n(b) has, in the opinion of the Government, abused his position; or \r\n(c) has knowingly acquired or continued to hold without the permission in \r\nwriting of the Government, directly or indirectly, or through a partner, \r\nany share or interest in any contract or employment with o r by or on \r\nbehalf of the Board or in any land on property which, in his knowledge, \r\nis likely to benefit or has benefited as a result of the operations of the \r\nBoard. \r\n7. Meetings of the Board .– (1) The Board shall meet at such time and place \r\nand in such manner as may be prescribed. \r\n(2) The Chairperson shall preside over a meeting of the Board and in his \r\nabsence, members present shall elect a member to preside the meeting of the \r\nBoard. \r\n(3) Seven members shall be present to constitute a quorum at a meeting \r\nof the Board. \r\n(4) Each member shall have one vote, but in the event of equal votes, the \r\nChairperson shall have a second or casting vote. \r\n(5) The minutes of every meeting of the Board stating among other things \r\nthe names of the members present, shall be drawn -up and recorded in a book to be \r\nkept for the purpose, and shall be signed by the person presiding the meeting, and \r\nsuch book shall be open to inspection with the prior permission of the Chairperson. \r\n(6) All decisions of the Board shall be authenticated unde r the signatures \r\nof the Chairperson and the Managing Director. \r\n8. Advisory Council.– (1) The Board shall have an Advisory Council consisting \r\nof the following as its members: \r\n(a) Chairperson of the Board; \r\n(b) Managing Director and Directors; \r\n(c) Directors o f Public Instructions in the Punjab and the Programme \r\nDirector of Directorate of staff Development, Chief Executive Officer of \r\nPunjab Education Commission; \r\n(d) Chairmen of the Boards of Intermediate and Secondary Education in \r\nthe Punjab; \r\n(e) a Vice-Chancellor of a University in the Punjab to be nominated by the \r\nGovernment for a term of three years; and \r\n(f) three curriculum experts including at least one woman to be nominated \r\nby the Government for a term of the three years. \r\n(2) Five member present shall cons titute the quorum for a meeting of the \r\nAdvisory Council. \r\n(3) The Chairperson of the Board shall preside the meeting and , in his \r\nabsence, members present shall elect a member to preside the meeting of the \r\nAdvisory Council. \r\n(4) The Advisory Council shall adv ise the Board in the performance of its \r\nfunctions under this Act. \r\n9. Power and functions of the Board.– (1) The Board may take such \r\nmeasures and exercise such powers as it considers necessary or expedient for \r\ncarrying out the purposes of this Act. \r\n(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, the Board \r\nmay: \r\n(a) undertake any work; \r\n(b) incur any expenditure; \r\n(c) procure plant, machinery and material required for its use; \r\n(d) acquire by purchase, lease, exchange or otherwise any material or \r\nmachinery or any interest therein; and \r\n(e) enter into and per form all such contracts as it may consider necessary \r\nor expedient for purposes of this Act. \r\n(3) The Board shall prepare and execute schemes pertaining to any of the \r\nfollowing matters: \r\n(a) implementation of the educational policies of the Government in \r\nrespect of the curricula, textbook manuscripts, development, approval, \r\nproduction and publication of the text -books and supplementary \r\nmaterial; \r\n(b) development, implementation, evaluation and updating of curricula; \r\n(c) preparation of schemes of studies ,curricula, manuscripts of the \r\ntextbooks and schedul es or strategy for its introduc tion in various \r\nclasses of an institution; \r\n(d) approval of manuscripts of the textbook and supplementary material \r\nproduced by a person or an agency before they are prescribed in \r\nvarious classes of an institution; \r\n(e) arrangement for the development, production and publication of \r\ntextbook and supplementary material relating to the textbooks; \r\n(f) laying down specification t o regulate and control production, printing, \r\npublication and sale of textbooks and other supplementary material; \r\n(g) production of reference and research material relating to the problems \r\nof curricula and preparation of textbooks; \r\n(h) regulate and control printing, publication and sale of textbooks and \r\nsupplementary material; \r\n(i) control of the policy relating to the distribution of text-books and \r\nsupplementary material, and the appointment of agencies for that \r\npurpose; \r\n(j) holding of training courses for the compilers and reviewers of curricula \r\nand writers of text-books; \r\n(k) holding workshops and seminars for effective use of text -books and \r\nsupplementary materials; \r\n(l) conduct of research in curricula, textbooks and supplementary \r\nmaterials; \r\n(m) exhibitions of textbooks and supplementary materials; \r\n(n) maintenance of a library including mobile library; and \r\n(o) implementation of general policy of the Government relating to \r\nperformance of its functions. \r\n10. Prohibition.– (1) No person shall, except with the p rior approval of the \r\nBoard, print, publish, sell or prescribe in an institution any textbook or supplementary \r\nmaterial. \r\n(2) An application for approval to print, publish, sell or prescribe in an \r\ninstitution a textbook or supplementary material shall be ma de in such manner and \r\nform and on the payment of such fee as may be prescribed. \r\n4[(2a) Any textbook or curriculum on religion with contents or matter related to \r\nIslam including Islamiyat, History, Pakistan Studies, Urdu, Literature or any other \r\nsubject material related to religion shall not be published before taking prior approval \r\nfrom the Muttahida Ulema Board Punjab and the Punjab Curriculum and Textbook \r\nBoard shall be bound to take such approval from Muttahida Ulema Board, Punjab.] \r\n(3) The Board may dir ect any person to amend, delete or withdraw any \r\nportion or the whole of curriculum, textbook or supplementary material. \r\n(4) The Board may prohibit any person or agency from producing, printing, \r\npublishing, selling or using in an institution any textbook or supplementary material \r\nor any part of it. \r\n(5) The Board shall not approve the printing, publication, selling or \r\nprescribing in an institution of any textbook or supplementary material which is or is \r\nlikely to be detrimental for examination or assessment p urposes, or which contains \r\nanything repugnant to the injunctions of Islam, or contrary to the integrity, defence or \r\nsecurity of Pakistan or any part of Pakistan, public order or morality. \r\n(6) If the Board issues a direction or prohibition under subsection s (3) or \r\n(4) to a person or an agency, such person or agency shall, within the time \r\nspecified by the Board, submit an implementation report to the Board. \r\n11. Committees.– (1) The Board may appoint such administrative, financial, \r\ntechnical and other committees as it may consider necessary. \r\n \r\n4Inserted by the Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board (Amendment) Act 2020 (VII of 2020), published in the Punjab Gazette \r\n(Extraordinary), dated: 12 June 2020, pp.4219, s. 2. \r\n(2) The constitution, functions and duties of the committees shall be such \r\nas may be prescribed. \r\n12. Technical experts.– The Board, Advisory Council or a Committee may incite \r\nany technical expert or other person possessing specialized knowledge of any \r\nsubject for assistance in the performance of its functions. \r\n13. Policy directions of the Government .– (1) the Government may, in the \r\nprescribed manner, issue policy guidelines and directions to the Board. \r\n(2) Subject to this A ct, in the performance of its functions, the Board shall \r\nimplement the education policy of the Government and the guidelines and directions \r\ngiven to it under subsection (1). \r\n(3) The Managing Director shall ensure that the general policy, guidelines \r\nand directions received from the Government are faithfully implemented. \r\n14. Offence and penalty.– (1) If a person to whom a direction or prohibition has \r\nbeen issued under this Act, fail to carry out the direct or prohibition, he shall be liable \r\nto punishment of i mprisonment for a term which may extend to two years or fine or \r\nboth. \r\n(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law and in addition to \r\nprosecution of the person under subsection (1), the Board may impose or \r\nrecommend to the concerned authority an y one or more of the following actions \r\nagainst such person: \r\n(a) initiation of disciplinary action for gross misconduct; \r\n(b) revocation of license or permit or cancellation of any registration \r\npertaining to printing, publication or sale of any book, newspap er or \r\nany other supplementary reading material under any law; and \r\n(c) disqualify the person for registration or grant of any license or \r\npermission under any law relating to printing, publication or sale of any \r\nbook, newspaper or any other supplementary rea ding material for a \r\nmaximum period of five years. \r\n15. Forfeiture.– On conviction for an offence under this Act, all copies of the book \r\npurporting to be the textbook or supplementary material, in respect or which the \r\noffence had been committed, shall stand forfeited to the Board. \r\n16. Cognizance and trial .– (1) No court shall cognizance of an offence \r\npunishable under this Act except on a report in writing made by an officer of the \r\nBoard authorized by the purpose. \r\n(2) An offence under this Act shall be triabl e by a Magistrate of the first \r\nclass. \r\n(3) The Magistrate competent to try an offence under this section may try \r\noffence in a summary manner in accordance with the provisions of sections 260 to \r\n265 of the Code of Criminal procedure, 1898 (V of 1898). \r\n17. Officers of the Board.– (1) The following shall be the officers of the Board: \r\n(a) Managing Director; \r\n(b) Directors; \r\n(c) Secretary; and \r\n(d) such other officers as may be appointed by the Board. \r\n(2) The Board may employ such officers and servants or appoint su ch \r\nwhole-time or part -time experts or consultants as it may consider necessary for the \r\nperformance of its functions. \r\n18. Delegation of powers .– (1) Subject to subsection (2), the Board may \r\ndelegate to a committee, the Managing Director, a Director or any other officer any of \r\nits powers, duties and functions, under this Act and subject to such conditions as it \r\nmay think fit to impose. \r\n(2) The Board shall not delegate the following functions: \r\n(a) frame, amend or repeal regulations; \r\n(b) constitute a committee or fill a vacancy in a committee; \r\n(c) take policy decisions; and \r\n(d) approve the annual budget, audited accounts and the annual reports. \r\n19. Employees to be public servants .– The Managing Director, Directors, \r\nofficers and servants of the Board shall, when acting or purporting to act in \r\npursuance of any of the provisions of this Act, be deemed to be public servants \r\nwithin the meaning of section 21 of the Pakistan Penal Code, 1860 (XLV of 1860). \r\n20. Fund.– (1) There shall be established a Fund to be known as the Punjab \r\nCurriculum and Textbook Board Fund which shall be administered and controlled by \r\nthe Board. \r\n(2) The Fund shall consist of: \r\n(a) grants from the Government or the Federal Government; \r\n(b) donations or grants from any person, local, national or inte rnational \r\norganization or agency; \r\n(c) fees, charges, fines or confiscations under this Act; and \r\n(d) income from any other source. \r\n21. Budget.– In the month of April each year, the Managing Director shall submit \r\na statement of the estimated receipts and ex penditure in respect of the next financial \r\nyear for approval of the Board. \r\n22. Maintenance of accounts .– (1) The Board shall maintain complete and \r\naccurate books of accounts in such manner and in such form as may be prescribed. \r\n(2) The Board shall submit t o Government the annual statement of the \r\naccounts once a year. \r\n23. Annual report.– (1) The Board shall, within three months of the close of a \r\nfinancial year, submit to the Government an annual report. \r\n(2) The report shall consist of: \r\n(a) the statement of accounts under this Act; \r\n(b) a comprehensive statement of the work and activities of the Board \r\nduring the preceding financial year and its future plans; and \r\n(c) such other matters as may be prescribed or as the Board may consider \r\nappropriate. \r\n(3) The Government shall, as soon may be after the receipt of the report \r\nfrom the Board, lay the report in Provincial Assembly of the Punjab. \r\n24. Audit.– (1) The Auditor General of Pakistan shall annually audit the accounts \r\nof the Board. \r\n(2) The Government, in addition to the audit under subsection (1), may \r\ncause the accounts of the Board annually audited by a Chartered Accountant or a \r\nfirm of Chartered Accountants. \r\n25. Rules.– The Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, make \r\nrules to carry out the purposes of this Act. \r\n26. Regulations.– Subject to this Act and the rules, the Board may, by \r\nnotification in the official Gazette, frame regulations to give effect to the provisions of \r\nthe Act. \r\n27. Protection of acts and orders .– No suit for damages or other l egal \r\nproceedings shall be instituted against the Government, the Board, Advisory Council, \r\nManaging Director, any Director or other employee of the Board in respect of \r\nanything done or purported to have been done in good faith in pursuance of this Act, \r\nrules or regulations. \r\n28. Appeal.– Any person, aggrieved by a direction or order of the Board, may, \r\nwithin thirty days of communication of the direction or order, prefer an appeal to the \r\nGovernment whose decision on such appeal shall be final. \r\n29. Act to have overriding effect .– The provisions of this Act shall have \r\noverriding effect notwithstanding anything contained in any other law. \r\n30. Repeal and saving s.– (1) The Punjab textbook Board Ordinance, 1962 (XLI \r\nof 1962), the West Pakistan Publication of Books Re gulation and Control Ordinance, \r\n1969 (XV of 1969), the West Pakistan Textbook (Regulation and Control), \r\nOrdinance, 1970 (XXVII of 1970) and the Punjab Curriculum Authority Act, 2012 \r\n(XXXXIX of 2012) are hereby repealed. \r\n(2) Notwithstanding the repeal of th e laws mentioned in subsection (1), \r\nanything done or action taken under any of the repealed law, shall have the effect as \r\nif the thing is done or action taken under the Act. \r\n(3) The Board shall be successor in interest of the Punjab Textbook Board \r\nand the Punjab Curriculum Authority established under the laws repealed under \r\nsubsection (1), and all assets and liabilities of the Punjab Textbook Board and the \r\nPunjab Curriculum Authority and all their employees shall stand transferred to the \r\nBoard.", "passage_offset_convention": "zero-based Unicode code points and 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