Definitions

Definitions.- In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:-

1. (a) “Academic Council” means the Academic Council of the University;
2. (b) “affiliated college,” “constituent college” means an institution imparting instruction for the Bachelor’s Degree, Integrated and Post-graduate Degree, and other courses recognized by the University as Affiliated College and Constituent College, respectively, in accordance with the provisions of this Act;
3. (c) “autonomous college” means an institution imparting instruction for the Bachelor’s degree, Integrated and Post-graduate degree, and other courses with an autonomous status recognized by the University Grants Commission and, or in accordance with the provisions of this Act;
4. (d) “college” means an institution maintained or admitted to its privileges by the University and includes a Constituent or Autonomous or affiliated College;
5. (e) “Council” means the University Council of the University;
6. (f) “Court” means the Court of the University;
7. (g) “Department” means an academic department of the University and designated by it, with reference to a subject or a group of subjects of study in the University;
8. (h) “Government” means the Government of Mizoram;
   • (i) “Head of the Department” means the Head of the University teaching department who has the status of a Professor or an Associate Professor in the University, and where the University has no such teaching faculty in a subject the person duly appointed, for the time being, by the University;
9. (j) “higher education” means the education and research studies leading to the award of a degree or diploma or certificate by the University or an Institution approved by a university recognized by University Grants Commission;
10. (k) “institute” means an academic institution of higher education and research, not being a college, associated with and admitted to the privileges of the University or maintained by the University;
11. (l) “Principal” means the Head of a college or Institution, or a person duly appointed, for the time being;
12. (m) “recognised Institution” means an institution of higher learning recognised by the University, or by University Grants Commission, as the case may be;
13. (n) “School Boards,” and “Board of Post Graduate Studies,” and “Board of Under graduate Studies” means respectively, the School Boards, Boards of Post Graduate Studies, and Boards of Under graduate Studies of the University established under this Act;
14. (o) “school” means a School of Studies of the University;
15. (p) “State” means the State of Mizoram;
16. (q) “statutes,” “ordinances” and “regulations” means, respectively, the Statutes, the Ordinances and the Regulations of the University made under this Act;
17. (r) “student or regular student” means a regular student of the University, Institution or College under the privileges of the University; “teachers” include Professors, Associate Professors, Assistant Professors, and such other persons as may be appointed for imparting instruction or conducting research in the University or in any College or Institution maintained by the University and are designated as teachers by the Ordinances;
18. (t) “University” means the Mizoram State University established under this Act;
19. (u) “University Grants Commission” means the Commission established under the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 (Central Act 3 of 1956).