Chapter VIII STATUTES AND REGULATIONS

Subject to the provisions of this Act, the statutes may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:-

(a) the constitution, powers and duties of the Authorities;

(b) the powers, functions, duties and conditions of service of the officers other than the Chancellor;

(c) the methods of election in respect of the Authorities and the manner of resolving the disputes in respect thereof;

(d) the procedure at meetings of such Authorities including the quorum for the transaction of business by them;

(e) the designation, manner of appointment, powers and duties of the officers;

(f) the classification and manner of appointment of teachers;

(g) the holding of convocations to confer degrees and diplomas;

(h) the conferment of honorary degrees and academic distinctions;

(i) the establishment, amalgamation, sub-division and abolition of Faculties;

(j) the establishment of departments of teaching in the Faculties;

(k) the establishment and abolition of hostels maintained by the University;

(l) the institution of fellowships, scholarships, studentships, bursaries, medals and prizes and the conditions of award thereof;

(m) the conditions of registration of graduates and the maintenance of register thereof;

(n) the entrance or admission of students to the University and their enrolment and continuance as such;

(o) the courses of study to be laid down for all degrees and diplomas of the University;

(p) the conditions under which students shall be admitted to the degree, diploma or other courses and to the examinations of the University and shall be eligible for the award of degrees and diplomas;

(q) the conditions of residence of the students of the University and the levying of fees for residence in hostels maintained by the University;

(r) the fees which may be charged by the University connected therewith;

(s) the conditions and mode of appointment and the duties of examining bodies and examiners;

(t) the conduct of examinations;

(u) the conditions of service remuneration and allowances, including travelling and daily allowances, to be paid to officers, teachers and other persons employed under the University ; and

(v) all other matters necessary for carrying out all or any of the purposes of the Act;

The first statutes with regard to matters set out in clauses (a) to (m) of Section 38 shall be made by the Government.

(2) Subject to the prior approval of the Government, the Board may, from time to time, make any statute in addition to the first statutes referred to in sub-section (1), and may amend or repeal any statute in the manner hereinafter provided in this section.

(3) The Academic Council may propose to the Board, the draft of any statute to be made by the Board and such draft shall be considered by the Board at its next meeting:

Provided that the Academic Council shall not propose the draft of any such statute, any amendment of a statute or repeal of a statute affecting the status, powers or constitution of any existing authority until such Authority has been given an opportunity to express its views on such proposal and any views so expressed shall be considered by the Board.

(4) The Board may consider any such draft as is referred to in sub -section (3) and make the statute or reject it or return it to the Academic Council for reconsideration, either in whole or part, together with any amendments which it may suggest.

(5) Any member of the Board may propose to it the draft of any statute any amendment of a statute or repeal of a statute and the Board may either accept or reject the proposal if it relates to a matter not falling within the purview of the Academic Council. In case such draft relates to a matter within the purview of the Academic Council, the Board shall refer it for consideration to the Academic Council, which may either report to the Board that it does not approve the proposal, which shall then be deemed to have been rejected by the Board, or forward such draft to the Board in such form as the Academic Council may approve, and the provisions of this section shall apply in the case of a draft so forwarded as they apply in the case of a draft proposed to the Board by the Academic Council.

(6) Every first statute made under sub-section (1) shall immediately after it is made, be laid before each House of the State Legislature, if it is in session and if it is not in session, in the session immediately following, for a total period of fourteen days which may be comprised in one session or in two successive sessions, and if, before the expiration of the session in which it is so laid or the session immediately following, both Houses agree in making any modification in the statute or in the annulment of the statute, the statute shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or shall stand annulled, as the case may be, so however that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously, done under the statute.

(1) The Authorities may make regulations consistent with this Act and the statutes for all or any other matters which by this Act and the statutes are to be provided for by the regulations, and also for any other matter solely concerning such Authorities and not so provided.

(2) Every Authority shall make regulations providing for the giving of notice to the members of such Authority of the dates of meetings and of the business to be considered at meetings and for the keeping of a record of the proceedings of meetings.

(3) The Board may direct the amendment, in such manner as it may specify, of any regulation made under this section or the annulment of any regulation made thereunder by any Authority.

(4) The Academic Council may, subject to the provisions of the statutes, make regulations providing for courses of study for the various examinations, degrees and diplomas of the University after receiving drafts of such regulations from the Board of Faculty concerned.

(5) The Academic Council shall not amend a draft of a regulation received from the Board of a Faculty but may reject it or return it to the Board of Faculty for reconsideration either in whole or in part together with any amendment which it may suggest.

(6) affiliation or recognition including conditional affiliation or recognition of colleges and polytechnics and withdrawal of such affiliation and for all other matters necessary for carrying out all or any of the purposes of the Act.