{ "id": 15433, "slug": "bihar-private-medical-colleges-taking-over-act-1978", "title": "Bihar Private Medical Colleges (Taking Over) Act, 1978", "short_title": "Bihar Private Medical Colleges (Taking Over) Act, 1978", "act_number": "[Bihar Act No. 5 of 1978]", "act_year": 1978, "act_type": "STATE", "location": "Bihar", "law_status": "unknown", "enactment_date": null, "description": "Bihar Private Medical Colleges (Taking Over) Act, 1978", "preamble": "", "section_label": "Section", "sections": [ { "number": "1", "title": "CHAPTER I", "chapter": "CHAPTER I", "content": "Preliminary", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 0 }, { "number": "1", "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 1 }, { "number": "2", "title": "2. Definitions.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) \"College\" means a Private Medical College which has been permitted to function under the Bihar Medical Educational Institutions (Regulation and Control) Ordinance, 1978 (Bihar Ordinance No. 40 of 1978);\n(b) \"College body\" means any Association or Managing Committee registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 (Act XXI of 1860) or otherwise in which the management and/or ownership of Private Medical College has been vested immediately before coming into force of the Bihar Private Medical Colleges (Taking Over of Management) Ordinance, 1978 (Bihar Ordinance No. 31 of 1978);\n(c) \"Board of Control\" in relation to a College, means a Board of Control appointed for the College under sub-section (1) of Section 3 of the Bihar Private Medical Colleges (Taking Over of Management) Ordinance, 1978 (Bihar Ordinance No. 31 of 1978);\n(d) \"Notified order\" means an order notified in the Official Gazette; and\n(e) \"Prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": true, "sort_order": 2 }, { "number": "4", "title": "CHAPTER II", "chapter": "CHAPTER II", "content": "Taking over of Private Medical Colleges\n3.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 3 }, { "number": "3", "title": "4. Effect of notified order issued under Section 3.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) The Board of Control constituted under the Bihar Private Medical Colleges (Taking Over of Management) Ordinance, 1978 (Bihar Ordinance No. 31 of 1978) shall be deemed to have been dissolved :\n(b) Any Association or Managing Committee registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 (Act XXI of 1860) or otherwise in which the management and/ or ownership of a College had been vested immediately before coming into force of this Act shall cease to have any control, right, authority, title or interest in any manner whatsoever over the College.\n(c) As from the date of the notified order or as soon as may be after such date, the State Government shall take all such steps as may be necessary to take into its control and possession, all such properties, assets and effects mentioned in subsection (2) of Section 3 and all actionable claims relating to the College to which, anybody who may be or appear to be entitled.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 4 }, { "number": "5", "title": "5. Contracts in bad faith may be cancelled or varied.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 5 }, { "number": "6", "title": "6. Determination of terms of the teaching staff and other employees of the College .", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 6 }, { "number": "7", "title": "7. Compensation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 7 }, { "number": "9", "title": "CHAPTER III", "chapter": "CHAPTER III", "content": "Miscellaneous", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 8 }, { "number": "8", "title": "8. Duty to deliver possession of property and documents.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 9 }, { "number": "9", "title": "9. Penalty for false statements.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) when required by this Act or any order made under this Act to make any statement or furnish any information refuses to make such statement or furnish the required information, or makes statement or furnishes information which is false in any material particular or which he knows or believes to be false or does not believe the same to be true, or\n(b) makes any statement which is false or which he does not believe to be true in any book, account, return or other document which he is required by any order made under the Act to submit;\nhe shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years or with fine which may extend to one thousand and five hundred rupees or with both.\n(a) having in his possession, custody or control any property forming part of the assets of the College, College Body or of the Board of Control, wrongfully withholds such property from the State Government, or\n(b) wrongfully obtains possession of any property forming part of the assets of the College, College Body or Board of Control, or\n(c) wilfully withholds or fails to produce or hand over to any person authorised by the State Government any register, record or other document which may be in his possession, custody or control, or\n(d) fails without any reasonable cause, or submit any accounts, book, or other documents, when required to do so,\nshall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years or with fine which may extend to one thousand and five hundred rupees or with both.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 10 }, { "number": "10", "title": "10. Cognizance of offence.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 11 }, { "number": "11", "title": "11. Protection of action taken under this Act.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 12 }, { "number": "12", "title": "12. Overriding effect of the Act.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 13 }, { "number": "13", "title": "13. Power to make rules.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 14 }, { "number": "14", "title": "14. Power to remove difficulties.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 15 }, { "number": "15", "title": "15. Repeal and Savings.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 16 } ], "metadata": { "Act ID": "Last Updated 31st January, 2020 [bh625]", "Act Number": "[Bihar Act No. 5 of 1978]", "Enactment Date": "", "Act Year": "1978", "Short Title": "Bihar Private Medical Colleges (Taking Over) Act, 1978", "Type": "STATE", "Location": "Bihar" }, "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19" }