Membership of General Council.

(1) There shall be a General Council of the University, which shall consist of the following members, namely:— (a) the Chancellor; (b) the Chairperson of the Bar Council of India; (c) the Chairman of the Board; (d) the Chief Justice of the High Court of Bombay; (e) the Senior-Most Judge-in-Charge of the High Court of Bombay at Goa, Panaji; (f) two Chief Justices (sitting or former) or Judges (sitting or former), of High Court nominated by the Bar Council of India Trust; (g) the Advocate General of Goa; (h) four members amongst which one shall be the Finance Minister of Government (or his nominee), one shall be the Law Minister of Government (or his nominee), one shall be the Secretary (Higher Education) to Government and one shall be an eminent person in the field of law to be nominated by the Government; (i) three nominees of the Bar Council of India from amongst its members; (j) five nominees of the Bar Council of India Trust from among its Managing Trustees; (k) three representatives of allied disciplines in social sciences and humanities nominated by the Bar Council of India Trust; (l) five persons nominated by the Bar Council of India Trust from among persons connected with administration of law and education and/or management; (m) seven members nominated by the Bar Council of India Trust of which one shall be the Chairperson of the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa and others shall be advocates, experts of any other field, academicians and/or industry: Provided that an employee of the University and/or the Bar Council of India Trust shall not be eligible for nomination under this sub-clause. (2) The Chairperson may invite any educationist, judge, social worker, minister, bureaucrat and/or advocate as a special invitee to attend any meeting of the General Council. Special invitees shall have no voting rights: Provided that the First General Council shall be constituted by the Board.