PUNJAB FREE AND COMPULSORY EDUCATION (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2022
ACT XXII OF 2022
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An Act Further to amend the Punjab Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2014
[Gazette of Punjab, Extraordinary, 24th October, 2022]
No. PAP/Legis-3(50)/2020/45.–The Punjab Free and Compulsory Education (Amendment) Bill 2020, originally passed by the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab on the 21st day of June 2022, was sent to the Governor of the Punjab for assent. The Governor neither assented nor returned the Bill. The Assembly again passed the Bill in its sitting held on the 13th day of September 2022. The Bill was again sent to the Governor and assented to by the Governor of the Punjab on October 21, 2022, is hereby published as an Act of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab.
Whereas it is expedient further to amend the Punjab Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2014 (XXVI of 2014), for the purposes hereinafter appearing;
Be it enacted by Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as follows:
1. Short title and commencement.–(1) This Act may be cited as the Punjab Free and Compulsory Education (Amendment) Act, 2022.
(2) It shall come into force at once.
2. Amendment in Section 1 of Act XXVI of 2014.–In the Punjab Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2014 (Act XXVI of 2014), in Section 1, for sub-section (3), the following shall be substituted:
“(3) It shall come into force at once.”