law: Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009
  18. No School to be
  
  established without obtaining certificate of recognition.-
  1.  
  
    No
  
  school, other than a school established, owned or controlled by the appropriate
  
  Government or the local authority, shall, after the commencement of this Act,
  
  be established or function, without obtaining a certificate of recognition from
  
  such authority, by making an application in such form and manner, as may be
  
  prescribed.
  2.  The
  
  authority prescribed under sub-section (1) shall issue the certificate of
  
  recognition in such form, within such period, in such manner, and subject to
  
  such conditions, as may be prescribed:
  Provided that no such recognition shall be
  
  granted to a school unless it fulfils norms and standards specified under
  
  section 19.
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  3.  On
  
  the contravention of the conditions of recognition, the prescribed authority
  
  shall, by an order in writing, withdraw recognition:
  Provided that such order shall contain a
  
  direction as to which of the neighbourhood school, the children studying in the
  
  derecognised school, shall be admitted:
  Provided further that no recognition shall be
  
  so withdrawn without giving an opportunity of being heard to such school, in
  
  such manner, as may be prescribed.
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    With
  
  effect from the date of withdrawal of the recognition under sub-section (3), no
  
  such school shall continue to function.
  5.  Any
  
  person who establishes or runs a school without obtaining certificate of
  
  recognition, or continues to run a school after withdrawal of recognition,
  
  shall be liable to fine which may extend to one lakh rupees and in case of
  
  continuing contraventions, to a fine of ten thousand rupees for each day during
  
  which such contravention continues.