SCHEDULE

(See section 16) STATUS GENERAL COUNCIL 1. Membership of General Council.-(1) There shall be a General Council of the University which shall consist of the following members, namely,- (a) the Chancellor; (b) the Attorney-General of India; (c) the Chairperson of the University Grants Commission or his nominee not below the rank of Deputy Chairman of the Commission; (d) Advocate General, Orissa; (e) Chairman, Orissa State Bar Council; (f) All professors of the University; (g) Two retired or sitting Judges of the Supreme Court of India or of High Court nominated by the Visitor; (h) Two eminent members of the Bar of the Orissa High Court, nominated by the Chancellor; (i) Two eminent persons nominated by the Chancellor working in the field of law and law education; and (j) The Vice-Chancellor: Provided that an employee of the University shall not be eligible for nomination to the General Council except the faculty nominees and the donors. (2) Any person who makes a donation to the University at any time of tan amount not less than twenty-five lakhs rupees shall be donor member during his life time and shall have a right to nominate a representative to attend meetings. 2. Chairman and Secretary of the General Council.- The Chancellor shall be the Chairman and the Registrar shall be the Secretary of the General Council. 3. Terms of office of members of the General Council.-(1) The term of office of the members of the General Council except donor members, if any, shall, subject to sub-clauses(2) and (3), be three years: Provided that the term of the first General Council will expire on constitution of the regular General Council under the provisions of this Schedule. (2) Where a member of the General Council becomes such member by virtue of the office or appointment he holds or is a nominated member, his membership shall terminate, when he ceases to hold such office or appointment or as the case may be, his nomination is withdrawn or cancelled. (3) A member of the General Council shall cease to be a member,- (a) if he resigns or becomes unsound mid or becomes insolvent or is convicted of a criminal offence involving moral turpitude; (b) if he other than the Vice-Chancellor, accepts a full time appointment in the University; and (c) if he is a nominated member and fails to attend three consecutive meetings of the General Council without the leave of the Chairman. (4) A member other than ex-officio member of the General Council may resign his office by a letter addressed to the Chairman and such resignation shall take effect as soon as such resignation is accepted by the Chairman. (5) Any vacancy in the General Council shall be filled either by appointment or nomination, as the case may be, of a person by the respective authority entitled to