CHAPTER III
A. Awarding Committee
There will be an Awarding Committee consisting of two Heads of schools, one of whom will be a member of the Council, and the Chief Executive and Secretary of the Council who will act as convenor. The functions and powers of the Awarding Committee will be:
(i) To consider all cases of unfair means reported to the Chief Executive and Secretary of the Council by the supervising examiners of the examination centres or by examiners during the marking of scripts or by any other source; and
(ii) To take decisions on such cases in accordance with the provisions of Regulations of the examination following the procedures approved by the Council.
B. Use of Unfair Means
1. If the Awarding Committee is satisfied that a candidate has made previous arrangements to obtain unfair help in connection with the question papers from any person connected with the examination centre or any agency within or outside the examination centre, the candidate is liable to have his results in the examination as a whole cancelled.
2. (i) Candidates who are detected in giving or obtaining, or attempting to give or obtain, unfair assistance, or who are otherwise detected in any dishonesty whatsoever will be reported to the Chief Executive and Secretary of the Council and may be expelled from the examination room forthwith and refused admission to subsequent papers.
(ii) The Supervising Examiner or any member of the supervisory staff shall seize the answer scripts in which the use of unfair assistance is suspected.
(iii) The Supervising Examiner shall send the seized answer scripts with a report giving the details of the evidence and the explanation of the candidates concerned to the Chief Executive and Secretary of the Council without delay and, if possible, on the day of the occurrence.
(iv) In case the candidates concerned refuse to give explanatory statements they should not be forced to do so, only the fact of refusal shall be recorded by the Supervising Examiner and attested by two members of the supervisory staff on duty at the time of the occurrence.
(v) The Supervising Examiner has discretion to permit such candidates to answer the remaining part of the question papers but on answer sheets separate from those in which the use of unfair means is suspected.
3. Candidates found guilty of
(i) bringing in answer sheets or
(ii) taking out or attempting to take out answer sheets or
(iii) unlawfully substituting answer scripts or getting the answer scripts replaced during or after the examination with or without the help of any person connected with the examination centre, or any agency within or outside the examination centre
shall be reported to the Chief Executive and Secretary of the Council and their results in the examination as a whole will be cancelled.
4. If it is subsequently discovered and the Awarding Committee is satisfied that candidates have either copied from other candidates or given opportunity to other candidates to copy from them or communicated dishonestly with other candidates, their results in the paper or subject or subjects in question or their results in the examination as a whole will be cancelled.
5. A candidate detected in approaching directly or indirectly an examiner or any member of the staff of the Council with the object of influencing them regarding the candidate’s examination result shall have his result in the examination as a whole cancelled.
6. Candidates guilty of disorderly conduct or causing disturbance in or near the examination room are liable to be expelled from the examination hall forthwith and will be refused admission for subsequent papers.
7. (i) Candidates are not permitted to have in their possession, while in the examination room, any book, memorandum or pocket book, notes, or paper whatsoever, except the correct question paper. Candidates using slide rules as permitted by the regulations must see that any information (formulae or other data) shown on them is securely covered. They must return any incorrect question paper to the Supervisor immediately.
(ii) Candidates disregarding this caution are liable to have their results in the examination as a whole cancelled.
8. (i) Persons obtaining admission to the examination on false representation shall be expelled from the examination hall forthwith and will be reported to the Police.
(ii) Candidates who are impersonated shall be reported to the Chief Executive and Secretary of the Council and their results in the examination as a whole will be cancelled.
9. (i) The decision in respect of the results of candidates who are suspected of using unfair means may be delayed considerably and will not be issued with the results of other candidates.
(ii) Candidates whose results in the examination as a whole have been cancelled may be debarred from entry to any subsequent examination.
10. A person who commits an offence under these regulations but is not a candidate, shall be dealt with as under:
(i) The Secretary to the Council may, if he so decides, hand the case over to the Police.
(ii) In the case of a teacher or a person connected with an institution, his conduct shall be reported to the Governing (or Managing) Body of the institution.
11. Entries may not be accepted from a school where any member of the staff has at any time committed any offence under these regulations.
12. If the Awarding Committee is satisfied that the use of dishonest means in a paper or papers has been widespread at a centre, the Awarding Committee reserves the right to cancel the results of all candidates of that centre in the paper or papers concerned, or in the entire examination at the centre if several papers are involved.
13. For cases of unfair means not covered by these regulations, the Awarding Committee may enforce penalties according to the nature of the offence.
14. Provided that no penalty under these regulations shall be imposed except after -
(i) giving the candidate an opportunity of making such representation in writing as he may wish to make in that behalf; and
(ii) taking the representation, if any, submitted by the candidate within the period allowed to him, into consideration.
C. Power to alter, cancel results, certificates, etc.
1. The Chief Executive and Secretary of the Council shall have the power to alter or cancel the results of a candidate after it has been declared, if
(i) the candidate is found guilty of having used unfair means, or
(ii) a mistake is found in his result, or
(iii) it is observed that an attempt has been made to unfairly alter the marks of a candidate by either tampering with the script or any other means that is not good practice.
2. The Chief Executive and Secretary of the Council shall have the power to cancel a Pass Certificate/Supplementary Pass Certificate which has been defaced or altered in any detail without the authority of the Council or which has been obtained by impersonation or by false representation of facts or by fraudulent or dishonest means of any kind.
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