The University may also establish an office at the seat of the Government.

Territorial jurisdiction

1. (1) With respect to teaching at the University or college level, research and extension education programmes in the field of agriculture and horticulture as broadly defined in this Act, the territorial jurisdiction and responsibility of the University shall extend to the entire State of Himachal Pradesh.
2. (2) The University may assume responsibility for the maintenance of agriculture, horticulture, animal husbandry, forestry, home science, food science, sericulture, bee-keeping and fishery, training centres and research and experimental stations and for the programmes of training of field extension workers therein and for the establishment, development and operation of Agricultural Polytechnics as may be required in various parts of the State.
3. (3) All colleges, research and experimental stations, or other institutions coming under the jurisdiction and authority of the Agricultural Complex of the Himachal Pradesh University shall come in as constituent units of the University under the full management and control of the University officers and authorities. No unit shall be recognised as an affiliated unit.
4. (4) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, no educational institution situated within the State and run by the Government or the Himachal Pradesh University, imparting instruction in agriculture, as defined by the Act, for bachelors degree and above, shall be associated in any way with or be admitted to any privilege of any other University incorporated by law in India and such privilege granted by any such other University to any educational institution within the State prior to the appointed day, shall be deemed to be withdrawn on the commencement of the Act.
5. (5) The University shall have exclusive jurisdiction throughout the whole State to provide for teaching, research and extension education in agriculture, as defined in the Act, and notwithstanding anything contained in any law relating to incorporation of any other University in the State, no University shall be competent to provide for teaching, research and extension education in agriculture, in the State.
6. (6) No University other than the University incorporated under this Act shall be competent to award any degree for research in agriculture carried on in the State unless registered for such degree before the establishment of the University.
7. (7) The University may have collaboration in research projects with other Universities having multi-disciplinary approach, Central and State institutions.
8. (8) On the establishment of the University under this Act in the State, the assets and liabilities of the Himachal Pradesh University pertaining to its Agricultural Complex shall stand transferred to and shall vest in such University.