Transfer of service of certain employees of the University of Madras to the University

(1) Every person who immediately before the notified date is serving in connection with the affairs of the University of Madras in the University Centre at Tiruchirappalli shall as from the said date, become an employee of the Bharathidasan University and shall cease to be an employee of the University of Madras. (2) (a) As soon as may be after the notified date, the Government may, after consulting the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Madras and the Bharathidasan University, direct by general or special order that such of the employees of the University of Madras as are specified in such order shall stand allotted to serve in connection with the affairs of the Bharathidasan University with effect on and from such date as may be specified in such order: Provided that no such direction shall be issued in respect of any such person without his consent for such allotment; (b) With effect from the date specified in the order under clause (a), the persons specified in such order shall become employees of Bharathidasan University and shall cease to be employees of the University of Madras. (3) Every person referred to in sub-section (1) or subsection (2) shall hold office under the Bharathidasan University by the same tenure, at the same remuneration and upon the same terms and conditions and with the same rights and privileges as to pension or gratuity, if any, and other matters as he would have held the same on the notified date or the date specified in the order under subsection (2), as the case may be, as if this Act had not been passed. (4) The liability to pay pension and gratuity to the persons referred to in sub-sections (1) and (2) shall be the liability of the Bharathidasan University.