law: Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009
  14. Proof of age for
  
  admission.-
  1.  
  
    For
  
  the purposes of admission to elementary education, the age of a child shall be
  
  determined on the basis of the birth certificate issued in accordance with the
  
  provisions of the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886 (6 of
  
  1886) or on the basis of such other document, as may be prescribed.
  2.  No
  
  child shall be denied admission in a school for lack of age proof