Section 4: Functions of Examinations Board

(1) The functions of the Examinations Board are- (a) to register candidates for Primary Leaving Examinations, Uganda Certificate of Education examinations and Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education examinations and any other examinations within the mandate of the Board; (b) to prepare, protect, conduct, supervise and mark primary and secondary national examinations and any other examinations within the mandate of the Board; (c) to award certificates to the successful candidates who sit for the examinations conducted by the Examinations Board; (d) to issue certificates of confirmation where certificates awarded in paragraph (c) are lost or destroyed or on request by any other person legally authorised; (e) on request by any person, to determine the equivalence of a qualification awarded by another examining body with a corresponding qualification awarded by the Examinations Board in consultation with that examining body; (f) to prepare, conduct and supervise examinations as may be required under any other law; (g) on request, to prepare, conduct and supervise examinations on behalf of another examining body; (h) to register a school or any other place as an examination centre and keep a permanent record of information concerning that centre; (i) to offer consultancy services, undertake research on educational assessment and prepare and carry out other forms of educational assessment including aptitude testing, national assessment and international assessment; and (j) to publish research reports, past examinations papers and any other similar documents. (2) For the purposes of subsection (1)(a), the Examinations Board shall display the register of the students registered for the examinations in a conspicuous place at the district headquarters and at the school notice board, at which the candidates are registered, sixty days before the date for commencement of the national examinations. (3) The certificates awarded under subsection (1)(c) shall be in a form approved by the Examinations Board and shall bear the signatures of the Chairperson and the Executive Director.