These Rules may be called the Kerala Education Rules, 1959.

1A. They shall come into force on such date as the Government may by notification in the Gazette appoint and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of these rules.

In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires-

(1) ‘the Act’ means the Kerala Education Act, 1958;

(2) the words defined in the Act shall have the same meaning as in the Act;

(3) ‘Department’ means the Education Department of Kerala;

(4) ‘Director’ means the Director of Public Instruction[=Director of General Education] or the Director of Higher Secondary Education or such other officer or officers who may from time to time be appointed by the Government to exercise all or any of the powers of the Director of Public Instruction or the Director of Higher Secondary Education, as the case may be.]

(5) ‘Educational Officer’ means the District Educational Officer or the Assistant Educational Officer having immediate inspectional and administrative control over the school within his respective jurisdiction. The term shall also include any Officer to whom the duty of inspection for specific purposes has been entrusted by competent authority.

(6) ‘District’ means the area of jurisdiction of a District Educational Officer;

(7) ‘Sub District’ means the area of jurisdiction of an Assistant Educational Officer;

7(a) ‘Teacher’ includes the Headmaster;]

(8) Management shall have the meaning as ‘Manager’;

(9) ‘Institution’ shall have the same meaning as ‘school’.