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No. 731] CHENNAI, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2025 Aippasi 27, Visuvaavasu, Thiruvalluvar Aandu-2056
Part IV—Section 2
Tamil Nadu Acts and Ordinances
The following Act of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly received the assent of the Governor on the 12th November 2025 and is hereby published for general information:—
ACT No. 54 OF 2025.
An Act to amend the Tamil Nadu Admission in Professional
Educational Institutions Act, 2006.
Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Tamil Nadu in the Seventy-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—
Short title and
commencement.
1. (1) This Act may be called the Tamil Nadu Admission in Professional Educational Institutions (Amendment) Act, 2025.
(2) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification, appoint.
Tamil Nadu Act 3
Amendment of of 2007
section 9.
2. In section 9 of the Tamil Nadu Admission in Professional Educational Institutions Act, 2006 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), in sub-section (1), for the expression "shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five lakh rupees", the expression "shall be liable for a penalty which may extend to ten lakh rupees" shall be substituted.
TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY 254Insertion of
sections 9-A,
3. After section 9 of the principal Act, the following sections shall be inserted, namely:—
9-B, 9-C and
9-D.
"9-A. Compounding of contraventions.—(1) Any contravention liable for penalty under sub-section (1) of section 9 may, either before or after the initiation of adjudication proceeding but before the imposition of penalty, be compounded by such officer, as may be notified by the Government in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette, on payment of such amount, as that officer may specify:
Provided that such amount shall not exceed the maximum penalty which may be imposed under this Act for that contravention.
(2) Where any contravention has been compounded under sub- section (1), no other proceeding shall be initiated or continued under this Act in respect of that contravention.
9-B. Adjudication.— (1) The Government may, for the purposes of adjudicating the contraventions and determining penalties under this Act, by notification in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette, appoint an officer to be the adjudicating officer to hold an inquiry and impose penalty in such manner as may be prescribed:
Provided that the Government may appoint as many adjudicating officers as may be required.
(2) The adjudicating officer may summon and enforce the attendance of any person acquainted with the facts and circumstances of the case to give evidence or to produce any document, which in the opinion of the adjudicating officer, may be useful for, or relevant to, the subject matter of the inquiry and if, on such inquiry, he is satisfied that the person concerned has failed to comply with any of the provisions of the Act, he may impose such penalty as he deems fit:
Provided that no such penalty shall be imposed without giving a reasonable opportunity of being heard.
9-C. Appeal.— (1) Any person who is aggrieved by an order passed by the adjudicating officer under section 9-B may prefer an appeal to appellate officer as may be notified by the Government in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette, within sixty days from the date of receipt of the order, in such manner as may be prescribed:
Provided that an appeal may be admitted after the expiry of the period of sixty days if the appellate officer is satisfied that the appellant had sufficient cause for not preferring the appeal within that period.
(2) The appellate officer may, after giving the parties to the appeal an opportunity of being heard, pass such order as he may think fit.
(3) The appellate officer shall dispose of the appeal within sixty days from the date of filing of appeal.
9-D. Recovery.— If the penalty imposed under section 9-B or under section 9-C, as the case may be, is not deposited in such manner as may be prescribed, the amount due shall be recovered as an arrear of land revenue.".
(By Order of the Governor)
S. GEORGE ALEXANDER, Secretary to Government, Law Department.