New private college to obtain permission

Save as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, no person shall, without the permission of the Government and except in accordance with the terms and conditions specified in such permission, establish, on or after the date of commencement of this Act, any private college: Provided that it shall also be necessary to obtain affiliation of such college to a university. Notwithstanding anything contained in the principal Act, or in any other law for the time being in force, or in any judgment, decree or order of any court, tribunal or other authority, where the management of any private college taken over by the State Government under section 30 of the principal Act before the date of the commencement of this Act was not restored to the educational agency of the private college after the expiry of the period for which the management of such college was taken over- (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, the taking over of the management of such private college shall be deemed to have been continued for a further period of one year from the date of such expiry, as if an order to that effect had been made under section 30-A of the principal Act, and accordingly section 30 [except sub-sections (1) and (2)] and other provisions of the principal Act as amended by this Act, shall, as far as may be, apply and the management of such private college shall stand transferred to the State Government on the date of the publication of this Act in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette, if the management of such private college is under the control of any person (including a Receiver appointed by a civil court having jurisdiction) other than the State Government on the date of such publication. Notwithstanding anything contained in the principal Act, the continuance of the taking over of the management of the Chikkaiah Naicker College, Erode by the Government during the period commencing on the 18th day of December 2015 and ending with the date of publication of this Act, in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette and anything done or any action taken by the Government to continue the taking over of the management of the said college during the said period shall be deemed to have been validly done or taken under the principal Act, as amended by this Act.