Provided that before taking any such decision the Chancellor shall give the person or persons affected thereby reasonable opportunity of being heard.

Transitory provisions In the year of the establishment of the University, certificates/diplomas and degrees, medals and other distinctions to the students passing out from the Colleges of Agriculture at Palampur and Solan and other institutions of the Agricultural Complex of Himachal Pradesh University, shall be awarded by the Himachal Pradesh University and thereafter the University incorporated under this Act shall award certificates/diplomas, degrees, medals and other distinctions, etc. as may be prescribed.