Chapter X TRANSITORY PROVISIONS

(1) Immediately after the commencement of this Act, the Government shall appoint an Administrator to exercise the powers and discharge the functions of the Vice-Chancellor under this Act till a Vice-Chancellor is appointed in accordance with the provisions of section 9: Provided that the person so appointed shall be a Professor of the University or any other University or college or an officer of the Government not below the rank of Secretary to Government. (2) The person appointed as Administrator under sub-section (1) shall hold office for a period of two years or till the necessity ceases, whichever is earlier.

(1) Immediately after the commencement of this Act, the Government shall appoint any person to exercise the powers and discharge the functions of the Registrar under this Act till a Registrar is appointed in accordance with the provisions of section 11: Provided that the person so appointed shall be a professor of the University or any other University or college or officer of the Government not below the rank of Deputy Secretary to Government. (2) The person appointed as Registrar under sub-section (1) shall hold office for a period of two years or till the necessity ceases, whichever is earlier.

(1) For removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that— (a) the Vice-Chancellor of the Annamalai University, appointed under the Annamalai University Act, 1928 (hereinafter in this section referred to as the 1928 Act) and holding office as such immediately before the commencement of this Act shall cease to be the Vice-Chancellor of the University; (b) the Registrar of the Annamalai University, holding office as such immediately before the commencement of this Act shall cease to be the Registrar of the University; (c) members of the authorities of the Annamalai University, elected or nominated or otherwise as such members under the 1928 Act and holding office as such members in any of the authorities of the Annamalai University, immediately before the commencement of this Act shall cease to be such members. (2) Within three months from the date of commencement of this Act or such further period not exceeding six months as the Government may, by notification specify, the Administrator appointed under sub-section (1) of section 55 shall make arrangements for re-constituting the Syndicate, the Academic Council and other authorities of the University in accordance with the provisions of this Act; (3) The Syndicate, Academic Council and other authorities of the University re-constituted under sub-section (2) shall commence to exercise their functions on such date as the Government may, by notification, specify in this behalf. (4) Until such time the Syndicate, Academic Council and other authorities of the University are duly constituted under sub-section (2), the Administrator appointed under sub-section (1) of section 55 may constitute any committee comprising of officers, temporarily to exercise and perform any of the powers and duties of such authorities. (5) It shall be the duty of the Administrator to draft such statutes, ordinances and regulations as may be necessary and submit them to the respective authorities for their disposal Such statutes, ordinances and regulations when framed shall be published in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette.

(1) The Annamalai University Act, 1928 (hereinafter in this section referred to as the 1928 Act) is hereby repealed. (2) Upon such repeal, the provisions of sections 8 and 18 of the Tamil Nadu General Clauses Act, 1891 shall apply. (3) Notwithstanding such repeal— (a) all colleges established and maintained by the Annamalai University under the 1928 Act shall be deemed to have been established and maintained by the University which is deemed to have been established under this Act; (b) all property, whether movable or immovable, including lands, buildings, equipments, books and library and all rights of whatsoever kind owned by or vested in, or held in trust immediately before the date of commencement of this Act by the Annamalai University as well as liabilities legally subsisting shall stand transferred to, and vest in, the University which is deemed to have been established under this Act; (c) all benefactions accepted or received immediately before the date of commencement of this Act by the Annamalai University shall be deemed to have been accepted or received by the University which is deemed to have been established under this Act, and all the conditions on which such benefactions were accepted or received shall be deemed to be valid under this Act, notwithstanding that such conditions are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act; (d) all references to the Annamalai University in any Act or any rule, notification, proceeding, order, regulation, by-law made there under shall be construed as reference to the University which is deemed to have been established under this Act; (e) all appointment of the officers (other than the Vice-Chancellor and the Registrar), teachers and employees of the said University and subsisting immediately before the date of commencement of this Act shall be deemed to have been made under, and for the purposes of, this Act, and such officers, teachers and employees shall continue to hold office, in the University which is deemed to have been established under this Act, subject to the conditions governing the terms of their office of employment; and (f) all statutes and regulations made under the 1928 Act shall, so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, continue to be in force and be deemed to have been made under the corresponding provisions of this Act until they are superseded or modified by statutes, ordinances and regulations made under this Act.