Transfer of services of certain employees

(1) Every person who, immediately before the appointed day, is serving in the colleges and institutions of the Assam Agricultural University specified in Schedule I shall, as from the said day, become an employee of the University and shall cease to be an employee of the Assam Agricultural University, (2) (a) As soon as may be, after the commencement of the Act, the Government may after consulting the Vice-Chancellor of the Assam Agricultural University and the Assam Veterinary and Fishery University, direct by general or special order, that such employee of the Assam Agricultural University, as are specified in such order shall stand allotted to serve in connection with the affairs of the Assam Veterinary and Fishery University with effect on and from such dates as may be specified in such order : Provided that no such orders shall be issued in respect of any such employee without his consent for such allotment, obtained within a period not exceeding one year, or within such period as may be specified by the Government; (b) With effect on and from the dates specified in the order under sub-section (2) clause (a) the persons specified in such orders shall become employees of the Assam Veterinary and Fishery University and shall cease to be employees of the Assam Agricultural University, (3) Every person referred to in sub section (1) and (2) shall hold office under the University for the same tenure at the same remuneration and upon the same right and privileges as to pension or gratuity, if any and other matters as he would have held the same on the appointed day or the dates specified in the order under sub-section (2) as the case may be, as if this Act had not been passed, (4) The liability of pension and gratuity to the persons referred to in sub-section (1) and (2) shall be the liability of the Assam Veterinary and Fishery University.