Definitions

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (1) "academic year" means the year commencing on the first day of June ; (2) " college committee ", in relation to a private college, means the college committee referred to in section 11 ; (3) "competent authority ", in relation to any provision of this Act means- (i) any university, (ii) authority, officer or person, empowered by the Government, by notification, to be the competent authority for the purposes of that provision and different competent authorities may be appointed for different provisions or for different areas or in relation to different classes of private colleges as may be specified in the notification ; (4) "educational agency", in relation to- (a) any minority college, means any person who, or body of persons which, has established and is administering or proposes to establish and administer such minority college ; and (b) any other private college, means any person or body of persons permitted or deemed to be permitted under this Act to establish and maintain such other private college ; (5) "Government" means the State Government ; (6) "grant" means any sum of money paid as aid out of State Funds to any private college ; (7) "minority college" means a private college of its choice established and administered, or administered, by any such minority whether based on religion or language as has the right to do so under clause (1) of article 30 of the Constitution ; (8) "private college" means a college maintained by an educational agency and approved by, or affiliated to, a university but does not include a college- (a) established or administered or maintained by the Central Government or the Government or any local authority or any university ; or (b) giving, providing or imparting religious instruction alone, but not any other instructions ; (9) "secretary", in relation to a private college, means the secretary referred to in section 12 ; (10) "teachers" means such Professors, Assistant Professors, Readers, Lecturers, Demonstrators, Tutors, Librarians and other like persons as may be declared to be teachers by the statutes framed under any law for the time being in force governing a university ; (11) "Tribunal" means a Tribunal constituted under section 38 and having jurisdiction ; (12) "university" means the Madras university, the Madurai University or, as the case may be, any other university that may be established in the State of Tamil Nadu under any law. (10) "teachers" means such Professors, Assistant Professors, Readers, Lecturers, Demonstrators, Tutors, Librarians and other like persons as may be declared to be teachers by the statutes framed under any law for the time being in force governing a university; (11) "Tribunal" means a Tribunal constituted under section 38 and having jurisdiction; (12) "university" means the Madras university, the Madurai University or, as the case may be, any other university that may be established in the State of Tamil Nadu under any law. In the Tamil Nadu Private Colleges (Regulation) Act, 1976 (President's Act 19 of 1976), in section 30, in the proviso to sub-section (5), for the words "six years", the words "ten years" shall be substituted. After section 30 of the Tamil Nadu Private Colleges (Regulation) Act, 1976 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), the following section shall be inserted, namely :- "30-A. Continuance of taking over of management in certain cases.- (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, or in any other law for the time being in force, or in any decree or order of any court, tribunal or other authority, if any private college, the management of which was taken over by the Government under section 30, could not be restored to the educational agency of such private college after the expiry of the period specified in the order made under sub-section (1) of the said section 30,- (i) for the reason that a dispute as to the constitution of the educational agency or as to whether any person or body of persons is an educational agency in relation to the private college is pending in any civil court having jurisdiction: or (ii) for the reason that the person to whom possession of the property of such private college is to be delivered cannot be found or has no legal agent or other person empowered to accept delivery on his behalf; or (iii) for such other reasons, as may be prescribed, the Government may, in the public interest and in the interest of the collegiate education, by order in writing, continue the taking over of the management of such private college from the date of such expiry, for such further period as may be specified in the order: Provided that the period so specified shall not in the first instance exceed one year but may be extended from time to time, by any period not exceeding one year at any one time so, however, that no such order as so extended shall, in any case, remain in force for more than five years in the aggregate. (2) Save as otherwise provided in this section, the provisions of section 30 [except sub-sections (1) and (2)] and other provisions of this Act shall, as far as may be, apply to an order made under sub-section (1) as they apply to an order made under sub-section (1) of section 30.".