30. (1) An employee of a recognised institution offering Technical Education Course shall be bound by the following general condition of service, namely:-(a) he shall not take part in, or subscribe in aid of, or assist in any way, any political movement, or any activities tending directly or indirectly to excite disaffection against the Government as by law established or to promote feelings of hatred or enmity between different classes of Bangladesh citizens or to disturb the public peace;(b) he shall not canvass or interfere or use his influence or stand as a candidate in any election to a local body or a ¹[House of the Nation or Jatiyo Sangsad]. (2) Any person, who contravenes any of the conditions of service, as specified in sub-section (1), shall be liable to disciplinary action including removal from his service by an order of the authority which appointed such person on proceeding initiated against him. (3) Any person aggrieved by an order of the authority referred to in sub-section (2) may prefer an appeal to the Chairman who may pass such order on such appeal as he thinks fit and such order shall be final.

31. Every member of the Board and of every Committee constituted under this Act, and every person appointed for carrying out the purposes of this Act, shall be deemed to be a public servant within the meaning of section 21 of the ²[* * *] Penal Code, 1860.

32. No suit, prosecution, or other legal proceedings shall lie against any person for anything in good faith done or intended to be done under this Act.

33. No act done or proceedings taken, under this Act shall be invalid on the ground, merely, of-(a) the existence of any vacancy in, or defect in the constitution of, the Board or any Committee constituted under this Act, and (b) any defect or irregularity not affecting the merits of the cases.

34. (1) The Board shall establish for the benefit of its officers and other employees, either Pension and Provident Funds or Contributory Provident Fund only, as it may deem fit, in such manner, and subject to such condition, as may be prescribed. When a Provident Fund is established, the Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, declare that the provisions of the Provident Funds Act, 1925, shall apply mutatis mutandis to such Funds. (2) In case the Board establishes Contributory Provident Fund under sub-section (1) all employees of the Board shall subscribe to that Fund a sum equal to 10 per cent of his salary every month. The Board shall contribute an equal amount in respect of each subscriber every month. (3) The terms and conditions of deposit of subscription and contributions to the Fund referred to in sub-section (2) and withdrawals and advances from it shall be such as may be prescribed.

35. A permanent employee of the Board shall retire in the afternoon of the date on which he completes the fifty-fifth year of his age unless his services are extended in the manner as may be prescribed.

36. (1) The Board shall provide for the members of the staff meeting with untimely death or disabled by accident or illness during service, a gratuity equivalent to one month's pay for each completed year of his service under the employment of the Board. (2) The terms and conditions of gratuity under sub-section (1) shall be such as may be prescribed.

37. No member of the Board shall draw any fee or other remuneration in any capacity whatever from the funds of the Board or enter into any contract with the Board directly or through any other person in connection with the affairs of the Board: Provided that the provisions of this section shall not debar the Chairman of the Board from receiving his emoluments in accordance with the terms and conditions of his appointment.

38. No person, who has any financial interest in any book prescribed by the Board as a course of study for any examination conducted by the Board or has a financial interest as a partner or otherwise in any firm which publishes, produces or supplies any such book, shall be eligible to become a member of the Board or a Committee or a Sub-Committee constituted under this Act and shall continue as such after having acquired any such interest.

39. The Government may make rules for the purposes of carrying into effect the provisions of this Act.

40. (1) The Board may, with previous approval of the Government, make regulations not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act or rules made thereunder, for carrying out the purposes of this Act. (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the power conferred by sub-section (1), the Board may make regulations providing for all or any of the following matters, namely:-(a) the powers and duties of the officers of the Board other than the Controlling Authority,(b) the conduct of the meetings of the Board and the Committees,(c) the grant and withholding of Diploma and Certificate,(d) the curricula and the courses of the study to be framed and prescribed for such certificates and Diploma,(e) for granting or withholding recognition to Institutions offering Technical Education Courses and for withdrawal of such recognition,(f) the constitution, powers, and duties of the Governing Bodies/Managing Committees of non-Government institutions offering Technical Education,(g) the terms and conditions of service of the teachers of non-Government institutions offering Technical Education,(h) the conditions under which candidates shall be admitted to the Examinations of the Board and shall be eligible for certificates, (i) the manner and mode of inspection,(j) the fixing and receiving fees for admission to the examinations of the Board and for other purposes,(k) the holding and conduct of all Examinations of the Board,(l) acquisition, possession and transfer of property by the Board, the conditions of such acquisition, possession and transfer or any other act referred to in sub-section (2) of section 3,(m) manner of appointment of the officers of the Board, other than the Chairman by the Board,(n) manner of appointment of employees of the Board, other than its officers, by the Chairman,(o) status, terms and conditions of service including rules for disciplinary action, for grant of leave and for retirement of the officers and staff of the Board,(p) manner of filling up temporary and casual vacancies in the posts of the officers of the Board under section 14,(q) form for showing anticipated income and expenditure of the Board and the period within which the budget estimate shall be forwarded to the Controlling Authority,(r) the framing of an Accounts Manual of the prescription of the manner and form of keeping accounts of receipts and expenditure of the Board,(s) period within which the copy of the audit report together with the observation of the Board shall be forwarded to the Controlling Authority, (t) manner and conditions of benefit from Pension and Provident Fund or Contributory Provident Fund only,(u) terms and conditions of gratuity,(v) travelling allowance and daily allowance of the members for attending meeting of the Board and Committees,(w) reports, returns and statements to be forwarded to the Controlling Authority under section 10, and (x) all other matters which are to be or may be prescribed by regulations. (3) Regulations made under this section shall be published in the official Gazette.

41. (1) From the date of commencement of this Act and till such time as the nominated and appointed members other than the Chairman are not nominated or appointed, the Chairman and the ex-officio members shall exercise all the powers and perform all the duties of the Board and its Committees constituted under this Act. (2) On the nomination and appointment of all the members, the Board shall exercise all powers and perform all duties of the Committees constituted under this Act up to the time the Committees are constituted.

42. If any difficulty arises with respect to the establishment of the Board or in connection with the first meeting of the members to the provisions of this Act, the Controlling Authority may, at any time, before the first meeting of the Board, make any order consistent with the provisions of this Act, which appears to him to be necessary or expedient for the purpose of removing the difficulty.

43. No act done, order passed or proceedings taken by the Controlling Authority or the Board or by the Chairman or any other officer of the Board or by any Committee under this Act, shall be called in question in any Court by a suit or otherwise.

44. The type, duration and standard of courses to be provided for, and the Diplomas and Certificates to be awarded, by the Board shall be as indicated in the Schedule appended to this Act.