Transfer of certain institutions to the University

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1. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other Act relating to the establishment of a University in the State or in the Statutes, Ordinances, regulations, rules and orders made thereunder, the colleges specified in the Schedule appended to this Act shall as from such date as the State Government may by notification in the Official Gazette, specify, (hereinafter in this section referred to as "the specified date"), be disaffiliated from the Universities to which they may have been affiliated on the day immediately preceding such date and shall be transferred to and be maintained by the University as its constituent colleges.
2. (2) The control and management of the colleges specified in sub-section
3. (1) shall as from the specified date stand transferred to the University and all properties and assets and liabilities of the State Government in relation thereto shall stand transferred to, and vest in, or devolve upon, the University.
4. (3) Where before the specified date, the State Government has made any contract in relation to any of the said colleges, that contract shall be deemed to have been made by the University, and any reference therein to the State Government shall be construed as a reference to the University.
5. (4) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act or the Statutes and regulations made thereunder, any student of a college specified in sub-section
6. (1) who immediately before the specified date, was studying in any such college or was eligible for any examination of the University to which his college was affiliated before the date as aforesaid (hereinafter referred to as the concerned University) shall be permitted to complete his course in preparation therefor, and the University shall make arrangements for the instruction, teaching, training and holding for such students examinations for such period and in such manner as may be prescribed in accordance with the curricula of studies of the concerned University.
7. (5) The control and management of all research and educational institutions of the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Animal Husbandry, the Fisheries Department and of such other Departments of the State Government as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in this behalf shall, from such date as the State Government may by order specify, be transferred to the University; and thereupon all properties and assets and liabilities of the State Government in relation to such institutions shall stand transferred to, vest in, or devolve upon, the University.
8. (6) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-sections (1),
9. (2) and (5), the Agricultural College, Junagadh, and all research and educational institutions in Junagadh District which were under the control and management of any of the Departments referred to in sub-section
10. (5) immediately before the date specified under sub-section (1), or as the case may be, sub-section (5), shall not, save with the previous sanction of the State Government, be discontinued by the University nor shall the educational, research or extension activities conducted in or by the said College or institutions immediately before the said date be stopped or reduced in scope or extent or transferred outside the said district, save with the like sanction.
11. (7) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other Act relating to the establishment of any University in the State, no such University shall as from the specified date be competent to award any degrees, diplomas, certificates or other acadamic distinctions in agriculture and the Faculties of Agriculture, Dairy Service and Veterinary Science thereof by whatever name called shall cease to function.