MALAWI NATIONAL EXAMINATIONS BOARD: SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION

MALAWI NATIONAL EXAMINATIONS BOARD: SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION

MALAWI NATIONAL EXAMINATIONS BOARD (FINANCIAL YEAR COMMENCEMENT) NOTICE

9 of 1987
G.N. 271/1969

under s. 2

        The Minister has determined to be the financial year of the Board in respect of the financial year commencing on the 1st day of January, 1969, the fifteen-month period so commencing and ending on the 31st day of March, 1970, and that thereafter the financial year of the Board shall be the twelve-month period commencing on the 1st day of April in each year.

MALAWI NATIONAL EXAMINATIONS BOARD (CONDUCT OF EXAMINATIONS) REGULATIONS

ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS

    REGULATION

PART I
PRELIMINARY

    1.    Citation

    2.    Interpretation

    3.    Application

PART II
DESIGNATION OF EXAMINATION ADMINISTRATION CENTRES

    4.    Designation of Examination Administration Centres

    5.    Physical condition of Examination Administration Centres

    6.    Furniture at Examination Administration Centres

    7.    Distance between Cluster Examination Centres

    8.    Notification, Inspection and certification of Examination Administration Centres

PART III
EXAMINATIONS ADMINISTRATION PERSONNEL AND THE CONDUCT OF EXAMINATIONS

    9.    Personnel involved in administration of National Examinations

    10.    Additional personnel at Examination Administration Centres

    11.    Qualifications of supervisors for Cluster Examination Centres

    12.    Qualifications of invigilators for Cluster Examination Centres

    13.    Qualifications and appointment of supervisors and invigilators for Lone Examination Centres

    14.    Number of invigilators at Examination Administration Centre

    15.    Number of security officers at Examination Administration Centre

    16.    Payment of examination fees

    17.    Storage of National Examinations papers

    18.    Registration of candidates

    19.    Verification of examination registers

    20.    Identification of candidates prior to examinations

    21.    Duties and conduct of the supervisor

    22.    Duties and conduct of invigilators

    23.    Joint duties of supervisors and invigilators

    24.    Duties of head-teachers of feeder schools

    25.    Duties of a security officers at Examination

        Administration Centre

    26.    Duties of a security officers at Distribution Centres

    27.    Duties of the administrator of the Distribution Centre

    28.    Supervisors, etc., not to be corrupt

    29.    Rules applicable to candidates

    30.    Examination rooms out of bounds for outsiders

    31.    Teachers sitting examination as candidates

    32.    Delivery of examination papers, stationery, etc.

    33.    Spot-checks by the Board

    34.    Briefing on conduct of examinations

    35.    Seating plan arrangements

PART IV
DUTIES AND CONDUCT OF PERSONNEL DURING MARKING EXAMINATION SCRIPTS AT MARKING CENTRES

    36.    Appointment of personnel for marking centres

    37.    Duties of a coordinator at a Marking Centre

    38.    Duties of chief or senior examiners at a Marking Centre

    39.    Duties of a security officer at a Marking Centre

    40.    Duties of an administrator at a Marking Centre

    41.    Rules applicable to examiners

    42.    Communication with the media, etc., by officials at a

        Marking Centre

PART V
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

    43.    Offences and disciplinary action

    44.    Revocation of G.N. 32 of 2003, G.N. 13 of 2004 and G.N. 11 of 2005

        First Schedule

        Second Schedule

G.N. 13/2008

MALAWI NATIONAL EXAMINATIONS BOARD (CONDUCT OF EXAMINATIONS) REGULATIONS

under s. 9 (2)

PART I
PRELIMINARY

1.    Citation

    These Regulations may be cited as the Malawi National Examinations Board (Conduct of Examinations) Regulations.

2.    Interpretation

    In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

    “Board” means the Malawi National Examinations Board;

    “candidate” means a candidate for National Examinations;

    “Cluster Centre” means a school, a hall, a room, a warehouse or any other place designated by the Board, where candidates from two or more schools write National Examinations together;

    “critic” means a person who reviews examination questions;

    “Distribution Centre” means a Distribution Centre for National Examination papers and materials;

    “enrollment” means enrollment for National Examinations at an Examination Administration Centre;

    “Examination Administration Centre” means a Cluster Centre or a Lone Centre or an Examination Centre where minor subjects and practical subjects are written;

    “Examination Centre” means an educational institution approved by the Board to enrol candidates for national examinations;

    “external candidate” means a candidate in National Examinations who is not an internal candidate;

    “feeder school” means an Examination Centre that uses one particular Cluster Examination Centre;

    “internal candidate” means a candidate in National Examinations who is a student of a feeder school;

    “Lone Examination Centre” means a school, a hall, a room, a church, a mosque, a warehouse or any other place designated as an Examination Administration Centre by the Board, where candidates from only one school write National Examinations;

    “moderator” means a person who reviews an examination paper holistically;

    “National Examinations” has the meaning ascribed thereto in section 57 of the Education Act;

    “setter” means a person who composes examination questions;

    “supervisor” means the supervisor of an Examination Administration Centre.

3.    Application

    (1) These Regulations shall apply to candidates and…