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Bihar State Universities (Patna, University of Bihar, Bhagalpur and Ranchi) Act, 1960
Bihar State Universities (Patna, University of Bihar, Bhagalpur and Ranchi) Act, 1960
Sections
1. Short title and commencement.
Section 12. Definitions.
Section 23. Establishment and incorporation of Universities.
Section 34. Purpose and powers of the University.
Section 45. University open to all classes, castes and creeds.
Section 56. Teaching of the University.
Section 67. Officers of the University.
Section 78. The Chancellor.
Section 89. The Vice-Chancellor.
Section 910. The Treasurer.
Section 1011. Arrangement of work during temporary vacancy in the office or absence of Vice-Chancellor or Treasurer.
Section 1112. The Registrar.
Section 1213. The Finance Officer.
Section 1314. Visitation.
Section 1415. Functions of State Public Service Commission in relation to appointments to posts of teachers and officers of the University and disciplinary matters affecting such teachers or officers.
Section 1516. Authorities of the University.
Section 1617. The Senate.
Section 1718. Term of office of members of the Senate.
Section 1819. Meetings of the Senate.
Section 1920. Powers and duties of the Senate.
Section 2021. The Syndicate.
Section 2122. Powers and duties of the Syndicate.
Section 2223. The Academic Council.
Section 2324. Powers and duties of Academic Council.
Section 2425. The Faculties.
Section 2526. Boards of Courses and Studies.
Section 2627. Council of Post-graduate Studies and Research.
Section 2728. The Examination Board.
Section 2829. Other authorities of the University.
Section 2930. Statutes.
Section 3031. Statutes, how made.
Section 3132. Ordinances.
Section 3233. Ordinance, how made.
Section 3334. Regulations, how made.
Section 3435. Rules.
Section 3536. Hostels.
Section 3637. Annual report.
Section 3738. University Fund.
Section 3839. Contribution by Government to the University and Colleges.
Section 3940. Annual estimates of income and expenditure of colleges and University.
Section 4041. Consideration of estimates by the Senate.
Section 4142. Restrictions on expenditure not included in the budget.
Section 4243. Objects to which University Fund may be applied.
Section 4344. Account and audit of the University Fund.
Section 4445. Audit of account of colleges.
Section 4546. Power of State Government to have accounts of the University or college audited.
Section 4647. The Finance Committee.
Section 4748. Inspection of colleges.
Section 4849. Relations of affiliated colleges with the University.
Section 4950. Qualifications for enrolment of students of the University.
Section 5051. Appointment of Commission to inquire in to working of University.
Section 5152. Disputes as to constitution of University authorities and bodies.
Section 5253. Filling of vacancies.
Section 5354. Proceedings of University authorities and bodies not invalidated by vacancies.
Section 5455. Conditions of service of officers and teachers of the University.
Section 5556. Pension, gratuity, insurance and provident funds.
Section 5657. Transfer of colleges to the University and other provisions connected with or incidental to such transfer.
Section 5758. Removal by Chancellor of difficulties at the commencement of this Act.
Section 5859. Transitory provisions.
Section 5960. Continuance of Statutes, Ordinances, etc., which were in force under the Bihar Acts XXV and XXVII of 1951.
Section 6061. Vice-Chancellor to take necessary action for election, appointment, nomination and co-option of members to the Senate, Syndicate and the Academic Council.
Section 6162. Saving as to certain examinations.
Section 6263. Repeal of certain enactments.
Section 6364. Certain appointments, etc., not to have effect unless approved by the State Government.
Section 64
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"content": "(b) The Syndicate and the Academic Council shall report to the Chancellor such action, if any, as they have taken or may propose to take upon the results of such inspection or inquiry, and such report shall be submitted within such time as the Chancellor may direct through the Senate which may express its opinion thereon.\n(c) Where the Syndicate and the Academic Council do not within a reasonable time take action to the satisfaction of Chancellor the Chancellor may, after considering any explanation furnished or representation made by the Senate, the Syndicate and the Academic Council, issue such direction as he may think fit and the Syndicate and the Academic Council shall comply therewith.",
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"content": "(ii) In making recommendations for appointment to every post of officer of the University (other than the Vice-Chancellor and the Treasurer) otherwise than by promotion, the State Public Service Commission shall have the assistance of only one expert to be nominated by the Syndicate.\n(iii) The expert or experts shall be associated with the State Public Service Commission as assessor or assessors whose duty it shall be to give expert advice to the Commission but who shall have no right to vote.\n(a) When appointment to a post of teacher or officer of the University is made by promotion or transfer from any other service including the service of the University, it shall not be necessary for the University to consult the State Public Service Commission, unless it is proposed, by such promotion or transfer, to fill-\n(i) A permanent post substantively, or\n(ii) A permanent post or a temporary post on an officiating or temporary basis for a period exceeding six months :\n(b) When appointment to a post of teacher or officer of the University is made otherwise than by promotion or transfer from another service including the service of the University, it shall not be necessary to consult the Commission if the appointment is not expected to continue for more than six months and cannot be delayed without detriment to the interest of the departments or institutions maintained by the University or the colleges transferred to it under section 57 :\n(c) The State Public Service Commission shall be consulted by the University in all disciplinary matters affecting a teacher or officer of the University (other than the Vice-Chancellor and the Treasurer) and no memorials or petitions relating to such matters shall be disposed of, nor shall any action be taken against, or any punishment imposed on, a teacher or officer of the University otherwise than in conformity with the finding of the State Public Service Commission ;\n(i) If the punishment proposed to be imposed is one of not be passed except by the authority empowered under this Act to appoint such teacher or officer ;\n(ii) No teacher or officer who is a member of the public services in India and whose services have been lent to the University shall be dismissed, removed or reduced in rank except by an order of the Government ;\n(iii) If the teaching efficiency of a teacher against whom a disciplinary action is proposed to be taken is in question, two experts in the subject concerned, to be nominated by the Academic Council, shall be associated with the State Public Service Commission as assessors whose duty it shall be to give expert advice to the Commission but who shall have no right to vote.",
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"content": "Ex-officio members.\nEx-officio members.\n(i) The Chancellor ;\n(ii) The Vice-Chancellor ;\n(iii) The Treasurer ;\n(iv) The Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature at Patna or any other Judge of that Court nominated by the Chief Justice ;\n(v) The Advocate-General, Bihar ;\n(vi) Chairman of the Bihar School Examination Board ;\n(vii) The Secretary to the Government of Bihar in the Department of Education ;\n(viii) The Director of Public Instruction, Bihar ;\n(ix) The Director of Health Services, Bihar, if the University has a medical college as one of its colleges ;\n(x) The Director of Industries, Bihar, if the University has an engineering college as one of its colleges ;\n(xi) The Director of Agriculture, Bihar, if the University has an agricultural college as one of its colleges ;\n(xii) The Director of Animal Husbandry, Bihar, if the University has a veterinary college as one of its colleges ;\n(xiii) The Deans of Faculties ;\n(xiv) Not more than one-half of the Principals and of Heads of University departments, other than Deans, by rotation, in the manner prescribed by the Statutes :\nLife members.\nLife members.\n(i) All ex-Vice-Chancellors who held the office under the Patna University Act, 1917 (XVI of 1917), the Patna University Act, 1951 (Bihar Act XXV of 1951), the University of Bihar Act, 1951 (Bihar Act XXVII) of 1951), and all ex-Vice-Chancellor of the University ;\n(ii) Every person who has given, whether in one or more instalments, a sum of not less than one lac of rupees in cash or property of the equivalent value to, or for the purposes of, the University or of a college ;\n(i) Such person may, within six months of the commencement of this Act, elect in writing to be treated as a life member of the Senate of any one of the University incorporated and established under section 3 and on such election being made he shall be deemed to be a life member of the Senate of that University only ;\n(ii) A person who was deemed to be a life member of the Senate under the Explanation to item (ii) under the heading 'class II-Life members' of section 15 of the Patna University Act, 1951 (Bihar Act XXV of 1951) or under the Explanation to item (iii) under the heading 'class II-Life members' of section 17 of the University of Bihar Act, 1951 (Bihar Act XXVII of 1951) shall be deemed to be a life member only so long as the beneficial interest arising out of any property endowed by such person accrues substantially to the University or to the College.\nRepresentative members.\nRepresentative members.\n(i) Such number of teachers (other than Deans, Principals and Heads of University Departments) having ten years' teaching experience as is equivalent to one-half of the total number of colleges to be nominated by rotation, in the manner prescribed by the Statutes ;\n(ii) Eight registered graduates, other than teachers of a college or of a University, who have completed ten years after graduation, to be elected by such graduates, in such manner as may be prescribed by the Statutes ;\n(iii) Three persons, to be elected from and by the members of the governing bodies or managing committees of colleges in the manner prescribed by the Statutes ;\n(iv) Three persons, to be elected from and by the members of the governing bodies or managing committees of colleges in the manner prescribed by the Statutes ;\n(iv) Six persons to be elected by and from the members of the Bihar Legislative Assembly in such manner as may be prescribed by the Speaker of the Assembly ; and\n(v) Two persons to be elected by and from the members of the Bihar Legislative Council in such manner as may be prescribed by the Chairman of the Council ;\nNominated member.\nNominated member.",
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"content": "(a) Of making Statutes, and amending or repealing the same ;\n(b) Of considering and cancelling Ordinances and Regulations ;\n(c) Of considering and passing resolutions on the annual reports the annual accounts and the financial estimate ;\n(d) Of exercising the powers of control and superintendence over colleges including the power of affiliating or disaffiliating such colleges : provided that the power of affiliating or disaffiliating such colleges shall not be exercised except with the previous approval of the State Government ;\n(e) Of instituting and conferring such degrees, titles diplomas and other academic distinctions as may be prescribed by the Statutes ; and\n(f) Such other powers and duties as are conferred of imposed upon it by this Act or the Statutes.",
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"content": "Ex-officio members.\nEx-officio members.\n(i) The Vice-Chancellor ;\n(ii) The Treasurer ;\n(iii) The Secretary to Government of Bihar, in the Department of Education ;\n(iv) The Director of Public Instruction, Bihar ;\n(v) Three Principals, one of whom shall be the principal of a college maintained by the University, and two Heads of University Departments, to be determined in such manner as may be prescribed by the Statutes so as to enable the Principal of every college and the Head of every University Department to have a seal on the Syndicate by rotation at every prescribed interval ;\nOther members.\nOther members.\n(i) Five persons other than teachers to be elected from an by the non-teacher members of the Senate in the manner prescribed by the Statues ;\n(ii) Four teachers other than principals, Deans an Heads of University Departments of whom two shall be nominated by the Chancellor and two shall be co-opted by the Syndicate ; and\n(iii) One representative of the governing bodies of the college to be nominated by the Chancellor.",
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"content": "(a) Shall hold, control and administer the property and funds of the University ;\n(b) Shall determine the form, provide for the custody and regulate the use of the common seal of the University ;\n(c) Shall, subject to the powers conferred by or under this Act on the Vice-Chancellor and the Academic Council, determine and regulate all matters concerning the University in accordance with this Act, the Statutes, the Ordinances and the Regulations ;\n(d) Shall administer any funds placed at the disposal of the University for specific purposes ;\n(e) Save as otherwise provided by this Act or the Statutes, shall appoint officers (other than the Vice-Chancellor and the Treasurer) and teachers of the University and shall define their duties and provide for the filling of temporary vacancies in the offices of such officers and teachers ;\n(f) Shall determine, after considering the recommendation of the Academic Council, rates of emoluments of examiners or class of such examiners ;\n(g) Shall have power to accept transfers on behalf of the University of any movable or immovable property to and for the purposes of the University and the colleges transferred to it under section 57 ;\n(h) Shall have power to cause the colleges to be inspected by any person or persons authorised by the Syndicate in his behalf, to consider the reports of such person or persons and to issue necessary directions to the Principals of such colleges and, where necessary, to the governing bodies or managing committee of such colleges through the Principals, and secure compliance therewith;\n(i) Shall have power to recommend to the Senate all proposals received by it for the affiliation or disaffiliation of educational institutions, the appointment of an authority for the consideration of an appeal from any teacher of the college against whom it is proposes to take any disciplinary action and the allotment of monetary grants to the colleges in accordance with any rules made under sub-section (2) of section 39 ;\n(j) Shall be competent to call for from the colleges any returns, statements, minutes of proceedings of meeting of the governing bodies or managing committees of such colleges or their annual estimates of income and expenditure and take such action thereon as it may think fit ; and\n(k) Shall exercise such other powers and perform such other duties as are conferred or imposed on it by this Act or the Statutes.",
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"content": "(i) The Vice-Chancellor ;\n(ii) The Deans of Faculties ;\n(iii) The Director of Public Instruction, Bihar ;\n(iv) Five Principals and five Heads of University departments as are not Deans to be nominated by rotation, in the manner prescribed by the Statutes :\n(v) Four teachers, other than Deans, Principals and Heads of University departments be co-opted by the Council ; and\n(vi) Not more than two experts, preferably not in the service of the University, to be co-opted by the Council for specific purposes, if necessary.",
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"content": "(a) Subject to the powers conferred by or under this Act on the Vice-Chancellor and on the Syndicate, determine and regulate all academic matters concerning the University in accordance with this Act, the Statutes and the Ordinances ;\n(b) Have the power of superintendence and control over, and be responsible for the maintenance of standards of instruction and education including the conduct of post-graduate teaching and the promotion of research work in the University ;\n(c) Exercise supervision and control over the conduct of teaching in the colleges in such manner as may be prescribed by the Statutes ;\n(d) Subject to the provisions of section 28, have powers of general control over the Examination Board and be responsible for the publication of results of the University examination ; and\n(e) Exercise such other powers and perform such other duties as may be conferred or imposed upon it by the statutes.",
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"content": "(a) Such number of members of the Senate as are teachers and as may be assigned to each Faculty by the Senate in accordance with the qualifications of such teacher members ;\n(b) Such number of members of the Senate as are not teachers, not exceeding one-fifth of the total number of members of each Faculty, other than the Faculty of Agriculture, Engineering, Law, Medicine, Commerce or Veterinary Science as may be elected from and by the Senate in the manner prescribed by the Statutes :\n(c) Such number of members, to be co-opted as experts by the Academic Council from amongst persons who are not members of the Senate, as may be prescribed by the Statutes :\n(ii) The Dean shall be responsible to the Vice-Chancellor for post-graduate teaching and research.\n(ii) If there are more than one Professor or more than one University Professor or more than one Reader in a department, the Vice-Chancellor, in consultation with the Principal in the case of a college department and in consultation with the Dean in the case of a University department, shall appoint, to be the Head of department, such one of the Professors or University Professors or such one of the Readers, as he thinks fit and the Head of a department shall be responsible to the Principal in case of a college department and to the Dean in the case of a University department for the organisation of the teaching in the department.\n(iii) Where it is proposed to appoint any teacher to be the Head of a department who is not the senior-most Professor, University Professor or Reader of the department no appointment shall be made under this sub-section except with the prior concurrence of the State Public Service Commission.",
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"content": "(i) The Head of the University department concerned, who shall be the Chairman and where there is no such Head of the University department, one of the Heads of the College departments mentioned in item (iii) shall be the Chairman, by rotation, in the manner prescribed by the Statutes ;\n(ii) University Professors, Professors and Readers in the department ;\n(iii) Three Heads of College departments one of whom shall be the Head of department of a college maintained by the University to be nominated in the manner prescribed by the Statutes ; and\n(iv) Not more than five other wholetime teachers of the subject of at least ten years' standing to be nominated in such manner as may be prescribed by the Statutes ;",
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"content": "(i) The Vice-Chancellor who shall be the Chairman,\n(ii) The Deans of Faculties,\n(iii) The Principals of colleges in which teaching in post-graduate standard is arranged and provided for by the University, not exceeding three in number, nominated by the Vice-Chancellor, by rotation, in the manner prescribed by the Statutes, and\n(iv) Not less than one-half of the Heads of University departments, nominated by the Vice-Chancellor, by rotation, in the manner prescribed by the Statutes, the term of office of such members being three years from the date of their nominations.\n(a) To assist the Vice-Chancellor in co-ordinating the post-graduate teaching in the University ;\n(b) To draw up proposals for expansion and development of post-graduate teaching and research and to submit them to the Academic Council ;\n(c) To give instructions to the Board of Studies, wherever necessary ;\n(d) To supervise and control the working of the local committees constituted under sub-section (3) ; and\n(e) To Exercise such powers and to perform such duties as may be assigned to the Council by Statues.",
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"number": "30",
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"content": "(a) The institution of Fellowships, scholarships, exhibitions, medals and prizes ;\n(b) The designations and powers of the officers of the University ;\n(c) The constitution, powers, functions and duties of the authorities of the University ;\n(d) The admission of educational institutions as colleges and the withdrawal of privileges from colleges so admitted ;\n(e) The institution of colleges and hostels and their maintenance and management ;\n(f) The classification and recognition of teachers of the University ;\n(g) The constitution of pension, insurance or provident fund for the benefit of the officers, teachers and other servants of the University, and the teachers of the colleges ;\n(h) The maintenance of a register of registered graduates ;\n(i) The number, qualifications, grades, pay and conditions of service of teachers, officers and other servants of the University including the creation of new posts, after considering the recommendations of the Academic Council and the Syndicate, in the case of posts of teachers, and the recommendation of the Syndicate, in the case of posts of officers and other servants of the University ;\n(j) The maintenance of accounts of the income and expenditure of the University including the income and expenditure of colleges and the forms and registers in which such accounts shall be kept ;\n(k) The maintenance of a register of teachers ;\n(l) The conferment of honorary degrees ; and\n(m) All other matters which, by this Act, are to be or may be prescribed by the Statutes.",
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"number": "31",
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"number": "32",
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"number": "33",
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"number": "34",
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"content": "(a) The courses of study to be laid down for all degrees and diplomas of the University ;\n(b) The conditions under which students shall be admitted to the degree or diploma courses and to the examinations of the University and shall be eligible for such degrees and diplomas ;\n(c) The formation of departments of teaching in the Faculties ;\n(d) The conditions and mode of appointment and duties of examiners and the conduct of examinations ;\n(e) The Standards of teaching to be maintained in the colleges ; and\n(f) All matters which by this Act, the Statutes or the Ordinances are to be or may be provided for by Regulations.\n(ii) Such Regulation shall have effect from the date on which it is confirmed by the Senate or from such other date as the Senate may appoint ;",
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"number": "36",
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"number": "37",
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"number": "38",
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"content": "(i) For the Patna University, a Fund to be called the Patna University Fund ;\n(ii) For the University of Bihar, a Fund to be called the University of Bihar Fund ;\n(iii) For the Bhagalpur University, a Fund to be called the Bhagalpur University Fund ; and\n(iv) For the Ranchi University, a Fund to be called the Ranchi University Fund ;\n(a) All sums contributed or granted to the University from the Consolidated Fund of the State of Bihar by the State Government for the purpose of the University or for the purposes of the colleges and all sums borrowed by the University for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act and the Statutes, Ordinances, Regulations and Rules made thereunder ;\n(b) All moneys received by and on behalf of the institution and departments established and maintained by the University including all sums paid to the University under any provisions of this Act and the Statutes, Ordinances, Regulations and Rules made thereunder ;\n(c) Such percentage of the balance, if any, standing to the credit of the University of Bihar established and incorporated under the University of Bihar Act, 1951 (Bihar Act XXVII of 1951), immediately before the commencement of this Act as may be determined by the Governor of Bihar having regard to the claims of the Universities established and incorporated under section 3 ;\n(d) All interests and profits arising from endowments made to the University and all contributions, donations and subsidies received from any local authority or private persons ;\n(e) All fees payable and levied under this Act and the Statutes, Ordinances and Regulations made thereunder ; and\n(f) All other sums received by the University, not included in clause (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e).",
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"number": "39",
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"content": "(ii) The amount of the annual recurring grant determined by the State Government under clause (i) of sub-section (1) shall be specified in a notification to be published in the Official Gazette, within sixty days from the commencement of this Act, and the amount so determined and specified in the notification shall be final and shall not be questioned in any court of law.",
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"number": "40",
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"number": "42",
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"number": "43",
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"content": "(a) To the repayment of debts incurred by the University for the purposes of this Act and the Statutes, the Ordinances, the Regulations and the Rules made thereunder ;\n(b) To the upkeep of departments established by the University, hostels maintained by it and colleges transferred to it under sub-section (6) of section 3 or section 57 ;\n(c) To the payment of the salaries and allowances of officers, teachers and other servants of the University, and of any provident fund contributions to any such officers, teachers and other servants ;\n(d) To the payment of the travelling and other allowances of the members of the Senate, the Syndicate, the Academic Council and any other authorities of the University or the members of any Committees or Boards appointed by any of the authorities of the University in pursuance of any provisions of this Act, and the Statutes, the Regulations and the Rules made thereunder ;\n(e) To the making of grants to the colleges and other institutions ;\n(f) To the payment of the cost of audit of the University Fund under section 44 and of the cost of audit of the accounts of any college under section 45 ;\n(g) To the payment of expenses of any suit or proceeding to which the University is party ;\n(h) To the payment of any expense incurred by the University in carrying out the provisions of this Act, and the Statutes, the Ordinances, the Regulations and the Rules made thereunder ; and\n(i) To the payment of any other expense, not specified in any of the preceding clauses, declared by the Senate to be the expense for the purpose of the University.",
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"number": "44",
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"number": "46",
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"number": "49",
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"number": "50",
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"number": "51",
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"number": "52",
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"number": "53",
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"number": "54",
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"number": "55",
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"content": "(i) Of having his services lent to the University and remaining, at any time, liable to recall to the service of the Government at the coption of the Government concerned ; or\n(ii) Of resigning the service of the Government on entering the service of the University ;\n(a) The State Government shall, as soon as may be, after the commencement of this Act, apportion such officers, teachers and other servants between the different Universities specified in sub-section (1) of section 3.\n(b) On such apportionment such officers, teaches and servants shall be deemed to have been transferred to the University to which they are allotted under clause (a) with effect from the date of commencement of this Act.\n(c) The University to which such officers, teachers and servants are deemed to have been transferred under clause (b) shall employ them subject to such terms and conditions as were in force immediately before the commencement of this Act and they shall be subject to such disciplinary control as are for the time being applicable to the officers, teachers and other servants of that University appointed under this Act.",
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"number": "56",
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"number": "57",
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"content": "(a) The University shall employ on such terms as may be determined by the State Government all members of the teaching staff and other servants of the State Government who, immediately before the date of the publication of the said order, were serving in, or were attached to, that college ;\n(b) The University shall consider, in consultation with the State Government, the claims to appointment in the service of the University of such teachers employed in any other educational institutions either within or without the territorial limits of the University as were in the service of the Government immediately before the date of such transfer in vacancies which in the event of such vacancies being filled by appointment or promotion of the teachers of the University who were immediately before the date of such transfer in the service of the Government, may involve the supersession of the claims of the teachers employed in the educational institutions referred to above.",
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"number": "58",
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"number": "60",
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"content": "(a) In so far as the Patna University mentioned in sub-section (1) of section 3 is concerned-\n(i) The Statutes, Ordinances, Regulations and Rules which were in force under the Patna University Act, 1951 (Bihar Act XXV of 1951), immediately before the commencement of this Act, shall, subject to such adaptations or modifications as may be made therein by the Vice-Chancellor with the approval of the Chancellor, in so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, be deemed to be Statutes, Ordinances, Regulations and Rules made under the appropriate provisions of this Act;\n(ii) In respect of matters for which there are no provisions in the Statutes, Ordinances, Regulations or Rules mentioned in sub-clause (i), the appropriate provisions contained in the Statutes, Ordinances, Regulations or Rules which were in force under the University of Bihar Act, 1951 (Bihar Act XXVII of 1951) immediately before the commencement of this Act shall, subject to such adaptation or modification as may be made therein by the Vice-Chancellor with the approval of the Chancellor, in so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, be deemed to be Statutes, Ordinances, Regulations and Rules made under the appropriate provisions of this Act ;\n(b) In so far as the Universities, other than the Patna University, mentioned in sub-section (1) of section 3 are concerned, the Statutes, Ordinances, Regulations and Rules which were in force under the University of Bihar Act, 1951 (Bihar Act XXVII of 1951) immediately before the commencement of this Act, shall, subject to such adaptations or modifications as may be made therein by the Vice-Chancellor with the approval of the Chancellor, in so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, be deemed to be Statutes, Ordinances, Regulations and Rules made under the appropriate provisions of this Act.",
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"number": "61",
"title": "61. Vice-Chancellor to take necessary action for election, appointment, nomination and co-option of members to the Senate, Syndicate and the Academic Council.",
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"number": "62",
"title": "62. Saving as to certain examinations.",
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"content": "(a) Any student who immediately prior to the commencement of this Act was studying for a degree, diploma or certificate of the University of Bihar established under the University of Bihar Act, 1951 (Bihar Act XXVII of 1951) in accordance with the Regulations in force under that Act, may until such examination is provided by the University, be admitted to the examination of the University of Bihar established and incorporated under section 3 and be conferred the degree, diploma or certificate of the latter University for which he qualifies on the result of such examination ;\n(b) Any student who immediately prior to commencement of this Act was studying for a degree, diploma or certificate of the Patna University established under the Patna University Act, 1951 (Bihar Act XXV of 1951) in accordance with the Regulations in force under that Act, shall be admitted to the examination of the Patna University established and incorporated under section 3 and be conferred the degree, diploma or certificate of the latter University for which he qualifies on the result of such examination ; and\n(c) If the Patna University established under the Patna University Act, 1951 (Bihar Act XXV of 1951) or the University of Bihar established under the University of Bihar Act, 1951 (Bihar Act XXVII of 1951) has held any examination the result of which has been published but the degrees, diplomas or certificates relating thereto have not been conferred or issued, or the result of any such examination has not been published, by the said University, then such examination held by the former University shall be deemed to have been held by the Patna University established and incorporated under section 3 and such examination held by the latter University shall be deemed to have been held by the University of Bihar established and incorporated under the said section.",
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"number": "63",
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"number": "64",
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