Amendments to Tamil Nadu Act 40 of 1992

In the Tamil Nadu State Council for Higher Education Act, 1992 (Tamil Nadu Act 40 of 1992),—

(1) in section 1, for sub-section (3), the following shall be substituted, namely:—

“(3) It applies to all Universities, colleges and institutions of higher education except technical University and college as defined in the Tamil Nadu State Council for Technical Education Act, 2010.”;

(2) in section 2,—

(i) in clause (c), for the expression “Management Science, Oriental Languages, Engineering, Technology”, the expression “Oriental Languages” shall be substituted;

(ii) in clause (f), for the expression “ technical or otherwise”, the expression “or otherwise (other than technical education as defined in the Tamil Nadu State Council for Technical Education Act, 2010)” shall be substituted;

(iii) in clause (j),—

(a) the expression “the Anna University” shall be omitted;

(b) after the expression “to which the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 applies”, the expression “but does not include a technical University as defined in the Tamil Nadu State Council for Technical Education Act, 2010” shall be added;

(3) in section 4, clause (g) shall be omitted;

(4) in section 10,—

(i) in sub-section (1), for the expression “research and scientific and technical institutions”, the expression “research and scientific institutions” shall be substituted;

(ii) in sub-section (2),—

(a) in clause (q), the expression “and technology” shall be omitted;

(b) for clause (s), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:—

“(s) promote institutes of excellence within or outside the University system in frontier areas of knowledge;”;

(c) in clause (x), for the expression “scientists, academicians and technologists”, the expression “scientists and academicians” shall be substituted;

(d) clause (ab) shall be omitted.