Removal of difficulties

If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this Act, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University may, by order published in the official Gazette, make such provisions not inconsistent with the purposes of this Act, as appear to it to be necessary or expedient for removing the difficulty. (1) All powers relating to discipline and disciplinary action in relation to students shall vest in the Vice-Chancellor. (2) The Vice-Chancellor may delegate all or such of his powers as he deems proper to the Chief Proctor and to such other persons as he may specify in this behalf. (3) Without prejudice to the generality of his powers relating to the maintenance of discipline and taking such action in the interest of maintaining discipline as may seem to him appropriate, the Vice-Chancellor may in the exercise of his powers aforesaid, order or direct that any student or students be expelled from any college or Institution maintained by the University, Department, Special Centre or Specialised Laboratory, or be fined a sum of rupees (that may be specified), or be debarred from taking an examination or examinations for one or more years or that the results of student or students concerned in the examination or examinations in which he has or they have appeared be cancelled. (4) The Principals or, as the case may be, the Heads of the Colleges, Institutions, Departments, Special Centres or Specialised Laboratories shall have the authority to exercise all such disciplinary powers over the students in their respective Colleges, Institutions, Departments, Special Centres or Specialised Laboratories as may be necessary for the proper conduct of such Colleges, Institutions, Departments, Special Centres or Specialised Laboratories. (5) Without prejudice to the powers of the Vice-Chancellor and the Chief Proctor as aforesaid, detailed rules of discipline and proper conduct shall be framed. The Principals, or as the case may be, the Heads of the Colleges, Institutions, Departments, Special Centres or Specialised Laboratories may frame such supplementary rules as they deem necessary for the aforesaid purpose. Every student shall provide himself with a copy of these rules.