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Ministry of the Minister or any officer autho-rized in writing by such Secretary

; and

Ministry of the Provincial Minister or any officer authorized in writing by such Secre-tary

;

“Divisional Deputy Director of Education” means the officer in charge of Education in a Division of a Pro-vinee, under the Provincial Director of Education ;

‘local authority ” means any Municipal Council, Urban

Council or Pradeshiya Sabha and includes any authority created and established by or under any law to exercise, perform and discharge powers, duties and functions corresponding to or similar to, the powers, duties and functions exercised, per-formed and discharged by any such Council or

Sabha

;

“Minister” means the Minister appointed under Article 44 of the Constitution to whom the subject of Edu-w+

eation has been assigned

;

“Provincial Council” means a Provincial Council esta-blished by Article 154a of the Constitution ;

“ Provincial Director” means the officer in charge of Edu-cation in a Province ;

in case

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“Provincial Minister ” means the Minister of the Board of

Ministers of a Province to whom the subject of Edu-cation has been assigned

;

“Senior Deputy Principal ” includes a member of the tea-ching staff of a school who is authorized by the

Principal of that school or appointed by the Appro-priate Educational Authority, to perform the duties of the Principal of that school, in the absence of the

Principal ;

“school ”” means a State school

:

“ specified school” means a schoo] classified as a National

School by the Secretary to the Ministry of the

Minister.