Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act

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THE PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS (PREVENTION OF UNFAIR MEANS) ACT, 2024 ACT NO. 1 OF 2024 [12th February, 2024.] An Act to prevent unfair means in the public examinations and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventy-fifth Year of the Republic of India as follows:— (1) This Act may be called the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024. (2) It shall come into force on such date [1] as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. Footnotes ^ 21stJune, 2024, vide Notifn. NO. S.O. 2422(E), dated 21st June, 2024, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3(ii). (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,–– (a) “candidate” means a person who has been granted permission by the public examination authority to appear in public examination and includes a person authorised to act as a scribe on his behalf in the public examination; (b) “communication device” shall have the same meaning assigned to it in clause (ha) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000); (c) “competent authority” shall mean the Ministry or a Department