IV-2—Ex. (731)

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GOVERNMENT OF TAMIL NADU

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2025

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TAMIL NADU

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

EXTRAORDINARY

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

No. 731]

CHENNAI, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13,  2025

Aippasi 27, Visuvaavasu, Thiruvalluvar Aandu-2056

Part IV—Section 2

Tamil Nadu Acts and Ordinances

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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:—

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.

Short title and

commencement.

Tamil Nadu Act 3

of 2007

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.

Amendment of

section 9.

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TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT GAZETTE  EXTRAORDINARY

Insertion of

sections 9-A,

9-B, 9-C and

9-D.

3. After section 9 of the principal Act, the following sections shall be

inserted, namely:—

“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.

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