Special provisions for students

34. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, the statutes, ordinances or regulations, every student of the College of Engineering, Guindy, Madras and of every institution specified in Schedule I who immediately before the appointed day was studying in that College of Engineering, Guindy, Madras or institution or was eligible for any examination held or conducted by the University of Madras or the Madras Institute of Technology as the case may be, shall be permitted to complete his course of study or be admitted to the examination of the University and the University shall make arrangements -

1. (a) for the instruction, teaching, training and holding examination for such students for such period and in such manner as may be determined by the first Vice-Chancellor in accordance with the course of study in the University of Madras or the Madras Institute of Technology, as the case may be ; and
2. (b) for the conferment of the corresponding degree, diploma or other academic distinctions of the University upon the qualified student on the result of such examination. [(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1) or any other provisions of this Act, every person who, immediately before the appointed day, was a student of-
   • (i) the College of Engineering, Guindy, Madras or of any of the institutions specified in item (I) of Schedule I ; or
   • (ii) the M.E. or M.Sc., (Applied Mathematics) Courses of the Madras Institute of Technology, shall be admitted to the examinations held or conducted by the University of Madras and the corresponding degree, diploma or other academic distinctions of the University of Madras shall be conferred upon the qualified students on the result of such examination, by the University of Madras.].