Application for registration
4. (1) Any person intending to establish a private school and any person intending that a private school already in existence should be continued as such, shall make an application to the Registering Authority in the prescribed form accompanied by the prescribed registration fee.
(2) The Registering Authority, on receipt of the application, shall make such enquiries as he considers necessary in order to satisfy himself-
(a) that the buildings and premises will provide adequate facilities with due regard to hygiene;
(b) that the staff will be qualified, adequate and adequately paid according to prescribed standards;
(c) that the fees charged will not be disproportionate to the facilities provided and will not exceed prescribed limits;
(d) that there is no reason to believe that the institution will be run in an undesirable manner or by undesirable persons;
(e) that the school follows a curriculum approved by [the concerned Board] of Intermediate and Secondary Education or other prescribed authority; and
(f) that no book which has not been approved by the [National Curriculum and Text Book Board] or which has not been published and printed by it, is prescribed for study in the school.
[(3) If the Registering Authority, after enquiry within ninety days of the making of the application under sub-section (1), is satisfied in respect of the matters set out in sub-section (2), he shall proceed to give registration in the prescribed manner.]
(4) [Omitted by section 3 of the Registration of Private Schools (Amendment) Act, 2001 (Act No. III of 2001).]
(5) The person or persons to whom a certificate is granted shall be responsible for due compliance of the provisions of this Ordinance and the rules made thereunder and the terms and conditions, if any, on which the certificate is granted.