FATA Compulsory Primary Education Regulation, 2002

FATA Compulsory Primary Education Regulation, 2002

The FATA Compulsory Primary Education Regulation, 2002 was promulgated on 2-5-2002 (copy enclosed). The purpose of the Regulation is to provide for law and mechanism to ensure compulsory primary education in FATA  for every child of either sex, whose age at the beginning of the school year is not less than five years and not more than ten years.

The Regulation requires the following implementation mechanism to be set in place:

(i)       Section 5(1) : Appointment of a Primary Education authority in each Tribal Agency and Frontier Region;

(ii)      Section 5(2) : The above officer is then responsible to ensure that every child of the given age attends her or his classes in a school;

(iii)    Section 5(3) :  Where a parent does not send his child to the school without an excuse as determined in Section 4 of the Regulation, the above Primary Education authority is supposed to give the parent an opportunity of being heard and after such inquiries as required, pass order directing the parent to make the child attend school from a specified date;

(iv)     Section 6(1) :  Any parent who fails to comply with the order issued under Section 5(3) can be convicted by the Assistant Political Agent to a fine;

(v)       Section 6(2) :  If a child within the age bracket five to ten years does not go to school but is employed also, the employer of such a child can also be convicted by the Assistant Political Agent to a fine;

(vi)     Section 7 : The Government is supposed to make further rules for the purposes of the actualization of the above Regulation.