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(ii) The Tamil Nadu Recognised Private Schools (Regulation) Act, 1973 enacted in the year 1973 came into force from 24.6.1974. The said Act exclusively deals with private schools including pre-primary, primary, middle, high schools and higher secondary schools.
(iii) Establishment and administration of Matriculation Schools are governed under the Code of Regulations for Matriculation Schools in Tamil Nadu, which came into force from 1.6.1978. Rule 10 deals with permission and recognition of new matriculation schools.

24. The respondents 7 and 8 are conducting 36 schools neither under the Code of Matriculation or Anglo-Indian Schools. Hence they are estopped from contending that the provisions of the Tamil Nadu Recognised Private Schools (Regulation) Act, 1973 and the Tamil Nadu Recognised Private Schools (Regulation) Rules, 1974 are not applicable to them.

25. The U.N. Convention of Rights of the Child (1989 recognised the rights of the child under Article 28 and in Article 29 specifically states that the child are entitled to get education from institutions, which conform such minimum standards as may be laid down by the State. Bearing the above and the law declared by the Honourable Supreme Court, the Parliament enacted the Right to Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 and the said Act came into force from 1.4.2010.

(i) an aided school;

(ii) a school established and administered or maintained by the Central Government or the State Government or any local authority;

(iii) a school giving, providing or imparting religious instruction alone but not any other instructions;

Explanation, - For the purpose of this Clause,-

(1) "code of regulation" means the Code of Regulations for Approved Nursery and Primary Schools, Code of Regulations for Matriculation Schools and Code of Regulations for Anglo-Indian Schools;