Section 1: Short title, extent and commencement

(1) This Act may be called the National Council for Teacher Education Act, 1993.

(2) It extends to the whole of India ***.

(3) It shall come into force on such date2 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

[(4) Save as otherwise provided in this Act, the provisions of this Act shall apply to—

(a) institutions;

(b) students and teachers of the institutions;

(c) schools imparting pre-primary, primary, upper primary, secondary or senior secondary education and colleges providing senior secondary or intermediate education irrespective of the fact, by whatever names they may be called; and

(d) teachers for schools and colleges referred to in clause (c).]