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The Chanakya National Law University Act, 2006
The Chanakya National Law University Act, 2006
Sections
1. Short title, extent and commencement.
Section 12. Definitions.
Section 23. Establishment of University.
Section 34. Objects of the University.
Section 45. Powers and functions of the University.
Section 56. Teaching in the University.
Section 67. University open to all persons irrespective of gender, class or creed.
Section 78. Chancellor of the University.
Section 89. Authorities of the University.
Section 910. General Council and its terms of office.
Section 1011. Powers, functions and meetings of the General Council.
Section 1112. Constitution and term of the Executive Council.
Section 1213. Powers, functions and meetings of the Executive Council.
Section 1314. Academic Council.
Section 1415. Powers, functions and meetings of the Academic Council.
Section 1516. Academic Planning Board.
Section 1617. Finance Committee.
Section 1718. Officers of the University.
Section 1819. The Vice-Chancellor.
Section 1920. The Registrar.
Section 2021. Heads of the Departments.
Section 2122. Other officers and employees of the University.
Section 2223. Selection Committees.
Section 2324. Statutes and Regulations.
Section 2425. Appointment of first Vice-Chancellor and first Registrar.
Section 2526. Nominations and appointments by the Chancellor.
Section 2627. Constitution of University Review Commission.
Section 2728. Honorary degree.
Section 2829. Withdrawal of degree or diploma.
Section 2930. Discipline.
Section 3031. Residence of students.
Section 3132. Deemed validity of appointments.
Section 3233. Due to vacancy, etc., not to invalidate any act or proceeding.
Section 3334. Indemnity against General Proceedings.
Section 3435. Overriding effect.
Section 3536. Power to remove difficulties.
Section 3637. Powers to make rules.
Section 3738. Repeal and Saving.
Section 38
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"content": "(i) To provide quality multi-disciplinary education in legal studies, keeping in view the demands of the global economy on the one hand and the needs of the domestic society on the other hand;\n(ii) To evolve and impart comprehensive legal education at all levels to achieve excellence;\n(iii) To organize advanced studies and promote research in all branches of law;\n(iv) To disseminate legal knowledge and legal process and their role in national development by organizing lectures, seminars, symposia, workshops and conferences;\n(v) To promote cultural, legal and ethical values with a view to promote and foster the rule of law and the objectives enshrined in the Constitution of India;\n(vi) To improve the ability to analyse and present for the benefit of the public contemporary issues of public concern and their legal implications;\n(vii) To liase and seek on reciprocal basis affiliation with institutions of higher learning and research in India and abroad to further the purpose and objects of the University;\n(viii) To publish periodicals, treatises, study books, reports, journals and other literature on all subjects relating to law and applied studies;\n(ix) To hold examinations and confer degrees and other academic distinctions;\n(x) To promote legal awareness for achieving social and economic justice for all;\n(xi) To undertake study and training projects relating to law, legislation and judicial institutions; and\n(xii) To do all such things as are incidental, necessary or conducive to the attainment of all or any of the objects of the University.",
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"content": "(i) To administer and manage the University and such centres for study, research, education and instructions as are necessary in furtherance of the objects of the University;\n(ii) To provide for instruction in all branches of knowledge or learning pertaining to law and such allied subjects as the University may deem fit;\n(iii) To make provisions for research and for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge of law;\n(iv) To institute degrees,titles, diplomas, certificates and other distinctions;\n(v) To hold examinations and to confer degrees, titles, diplomas and other academic distinctions on persons subject to such conditions as the University may determine and to withdraw any such degrees, titles, diplomas and other academic distinctions subject to such conditions as the University may determine;\n(vi) To fix, demand and receive fees and other charges as may be prescribed;\n(vii) To institute and maintain halls and hostels and to recognize places of residence for 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academic or research posts required by the University;\n(xiv) To appoint persons as professors, associate professors, assistant professors, readers, lecturers or otherwise as teachers and researchers in the University and as holders of similar posts;\n(xv) To institute and award Fellowships, Scholarships, Prizes and Medals;\n(xvi) To provide for printing, reproduction and publication of research and other works and to organize exhibitions;\n(xvii) To sponsor and undertake research in all aspects of law, justice and social development;\n(xviii) To co-operate with other organizations in the matter of education, training and research in law, Justice, social development and allied subjects for such purposes as may be agreed upon on such terms and conditions as the University may from time to time determine;\n(xix) To co-operate with institutions of higher learning in any part of the world, having objects wholly or otherwise similar to those of the University by exchange of teachers and scholars and generally in such manner as may be conducive to the common objects;\n(xx) To regulate the expenditure and to manage the accounts of the University;\n(xxi) To establish and maintain within the premises of the University or elsewhere such Schools, Colleges and Study Halls as the University may consider necessary and to adequately furnish the same and to establish and maintain such libraries and reading rooms as may appear convenient or necessary for the University;\n(xxii) To receive grants, subventions, subscriptions, donations and gifts for the purposes of the University consistent with the objects for which the University is established;\n(xxiii) To purchase, take on lease, or accept as gift, or otherwise any land or building or works which may be necessary or convenient for the purpose of the University and on such terms and conditions as it may think fit and proper and to construct or alter and maintain any such building or works;\n(xxiv) To sell, exchange, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any portion of the properties of the University, movable or immovable, on such terms and conditions as it may think fit and proper without prejudice to the interests and activities of the University;\n(xxv) To draw and accept, to make and endorse, to discount promissory notes, bills of exchange, cheques or other negotiable instruments and negotiate with Government of India;\n(xxvi) To execute conveyances, transfers, reconveyances, mortgages, leases, licences and agreements in respect of property, movable or immovable including Government securities belonging to the University or to be acquired for the purpose of the University;\n(xxvii) To appoint in order to execute an instrument or transact any business of the University any person as it may, deem fit;\n(xxviii) To give up and cease from carrying on any classes or departments of the University;\n(xxix) To enter into any agreement with the Central Government, State Government, the University Grants 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University and its properties and to alter, modify and to rescind them;\n(xxxiv) To constitute for the benefit of the academic, technical, administrative and other staff, in such manner and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed pension, insurance, provident fund and gratuity and other schemes as it may deem fit and to make such grants as it may think fit for the benefit of the staff of the University and to aid in the establishment and support of associations, institutions, funds and trusts for the benefits of the staff and the students of University;\n(xxxv) To confer honorary degrees and other distinctions in the manner laid down in the regulations;\n(xxxvi) To delegate all or any of its powers to the Vice-Chancellor or any Committee, Council or Board or to any one or more members of its body or its officers, and\n(xxxvii) To do all such other acts and any things as the University may consider necessary, conducive or incidental to the attainment or enlargement of the 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"content": "(1) The General Council;\n(2) The Executive Council;\n(3) The Academic Council;\n(4) The Academic Planning Board;\n(5) The Finance Committee, and\n(6) Such other authorities as may from time to time be declared as such by the Statutes.",
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"content": "(a) Chancellor;\n(b) Vice-Chancellor;\n(c) Attorney General of India;\n(d) Chairman, Bar Council of India or his nominee from amongst the members of the Bar Council of India;\n(e) Advocate General of Bihar;\n(f) Chairman, Bar Council of Bihar;\n(g) Two judges from amongst sitting or retired judges of High Court of Patna, nominated by the Chancellor;\n(h) Two eminent persons in the disciplines of Social Sciences and Humanities nominated by the Chancellor;\n(i) Two eminent persons in legal or educational field, nominated by the Chancellor;\n(j) Four members nominated by the State Government, which shall include the Chief Secretary and the Secretaries in the departments of finance, law and higher education;\n(k) The Registrar of the University; and\n(l) All the Professors who are the Heads of Department in the University.\n(ii) The term of office of the nominated members of the General Council other than the ex-officio members shall be three years;\n(iii) A member of the General Council shall cease to be a member if he resigns or becomes of unsound mind, or becomes insolvent or is convicted of a criminal offence involving moral turpitude. A member, other than the Vice-Chancellor, Registrar or Professor, shall also cease to be member if he accepts a full time appointment in the university; or if he not being an Ex-Officio member fails to attend three consecutive meetings of the General Council without the leave of the Chancellor;\n(iv) A member of the General Council other than an ex-officio member may resign his office by a letter addressed to the Chancellor and such resignation shall take effect as soon as it has been accepted; and\n(v) Any vacancy in the General Council shall be filled by nomination by the respective nominating authority and on expiry of the period of the vacancy; such nomination shall cease to be effective.",
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"content": "(i) To consider and pass the annual report, financial statement and the Budget estimates prepared by the Executive Council and to adopt them with or without modification:\n(ii) To make Statutes concerning the administration of the affairs of the university including prescribing the procedures to be followed by the authorities and the officers of the University in the discharge of their functions.\n(ii) A report of the working of the University during the previous year, together with a statement of receipts and expenditure, the balance sheet as audited, and the financial estimates shall be presented by the Vice-Chancellor to the General Council at its annual meetings;\n(iii) Meetings of the General Council shall be called by the Chancellor or by the Vice-Chancellor either on his own or at the request of not less than ten members of the General Council;\n(iv) For every meeting of the General Council, fourteen days notice shall be given;\n(v) One third of the members existing on the rolls of the General Council shall form the quorum;\n(vi) Each member shall have one vote and if there be equality of votes on any question to be determined by the General Council, the person presiding over the meeting shall, in addition, have a casting vote;",
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"content": "(a) The Vice-Chancellor of the University;\n(b) Chairman of the Bar Council of India or his nominee from amongst its members;\n(c) The Chairman, Bar Council of Bihar;\n(d) Advocate General of Bihar;\n(e) Commissioner-cum-Secretary, Human Resources Development Department, Bihar;\n(f) Secretary-cum-Legal Remembrancer, Bihar;\n(g) The Registrar of the University;\n(h) Two Professors of law from outside the University nominated by the Vice-Chancellor;\n(i) Three teachers to be nominated by the Vice Chancellor of whom, one shall be from amongst Heads of Department, one from Professors and one from Associate Professors by rotation for a period of one year each.\n(a) Where a person has become a member of the Executive Council by reason of the office or appointment he holds, his membership shall terminate when he ceases to hold that office or appointment;\n(b) The term of office of the nominated members of the Executive council other than ex-officio members shall be three years;\n(c) A member of the Executive Council shall cease to be a member, if he resigns or becomes of unsound mind or becomes insolvent or is convicted of a criminal offence involving moral turpitude. A member other than the Vice-Chancellor or teacher shall also cease to be a member if he accepts a full time appointment in the University; or if he being a teacher fails to attend three consecutive meetings of the Executive Council without the leave of the Vice-Chancellor;\n(d) A member of the Executive Council other than an ex-officio member may resign his office by a letter addressed to the Vice-Chancellor and such resignation shall take effect as soon as it has been accepted by him;\n(e) Any vacancy in the Executive Council shall be filled by nomination by the respective nominating authority and on expiry of the period of vacancy, such nomination shall cease to be effective.",
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"content": "(i) To constitute a Selection Committee headed by the Vice-Chancellor to recommend the names of three persons to the Chancellor for appointment of Registrar of the University.\n(ii) To prepare and present the following to the General Council at its annual meetings:-\n(a) A report on the working of the University;\n(b) A statement of accounts; and\n(c) Budget proposals for the ensuing academic year.\n(iii) To manage and regulate the finances, accounts, investments, properties, business and all other administrative affairs of the University and for that purpose, constitute committees and delegate the powers to such committees or such officers of the University as it may deem fit;\n(iv) To invest any money belonging to the University, including any un-applied income, in such stock, funds, shares or securities, as it may, from time to time, think fit, or in the purchase of immovable property, with the like power of varying such investments from time to time;\n(v) To transfer or accept transfers of any movable or immovable property on behalf of the University;\n(vi) to enter into, vary, carry out and cancel contracts on behalf of the University and for that purpose to appoint such officers as it may think fit;\n(vii) To provide buildings, premises, furniture and apparatus and other means needed for carrying on the work of the University;\n(viii) To entertain, adjudicate upon, and if it thinks fit, to redress any grievances of the students and the employees of the University including the officers and teachers;\n(ix) To create teaching, administrative, ministerial and other necessary posts, to determine the number and emoluments of such posts, to specify the minimum qualifications for appointment to such posts on such terms and conditions of service as may be prescribed by the Regulations made in this behalf;\n(x) To appoint examiners and moderators, and if necessary to remove them and to fix their fees, emoluments and travelling and other allowances, after consulting the Academic Council;\n(xi) To select a common seal for the University; and\n(xii) To exercise such other powers and to perform such other duties as may be considered necessary; or imposed on it by or under this Act.\n(ii) The meeting of the Executive Council shall be called by the Registrar under instructions of the Vice-Chancellor or at the request of not less than five members of the Executive Council;\n(iii) Six members of the Executive Council shall form the quorum at any meeting;\n(iv) In case of difference of opinion among the members, the opinion of the majority shall prevail;\n(v) Each member of the Executive Council shall have one vote and if there be equality of votes on any question to be determined by the Executive Council, the Chairman of the Executive Council or as the case may be, the member presiding over that meeting shall, in addition, have a casting vote;\n(vi) Every meeting of the Executive Council shall be presided over by the Vice-Chancellor and in his absence by a member chosen by the members present;\n(vii) If urgent action by the Executive Council becomes necessary, the Vice-Chancellor may permit the business to be transacted by circulation of papers to the members of the Executive Council.The decisions so taken shall not be valid unless agreed to by a majority of members of the Executive Council. Such decisions shall be forthwith intimated to all the members of the Executive Council. In case the Executive Council fails to take decision the matter shall be referred to the Chancellor whose decision shall be final.",
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"content": "(a) The Vice-Chancellor who shall be the Chairman;\n(b) One judge of the Patna High Court either sitting or retired, nominated by the Chancellor;\n(c) Three persons from amongst educationists of repute or men of letters or members of the learned profession or eminent public men, who are not in the service of the University nominated by the Chancellor;\n(d) A nominee of the Bar Council of India;\n(e) A nominee of the Bar Council of Bihar;\n(f) All Professors of the University other than the Heads of the Department;\n(g) All the Heads of the Department;\n(h) Two members of the teaching staff; one each respectively representing the Associate and Assistant Professors of the University, nominated by the Vice-Chancellor for the terms specified:",
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"content": "(i) To report on any matter referred or delegated to it by the General Council or the Executive Council;\n(ii) To make recommendations to the Executive Council with regard to the creation, abolition or classification of teaching posts in the University and the emoluments payable and the duties attached thereto;\n(iii) To formulate and modify or revise schemes for the organization of the faculties, and to assign to such faculties their respective subjects and also to report to the Executive Council as to the expediency of the abolition or sub-division of any faculty or the combination of one faculty with another;\n(iv) To recommend arrangements for the instruction and examination of persons other than those enrolled in the University;\n(v) To promote research under the University and to require from time to time, reports on such research;\n(vi) To consider proposals submitted by the faculties;\n(vii) To suggest policies for admissions to the University;\n(viii) To recommend recognition of diplomas and degrees of other Universities and institutions and to determine their equivalence in relation to the certificates, diplomas and degrees of the University;\n(ix) To fix subject to any conditions accepted by the General Council, the time, mode and conditions of competition for Fellowships, Scholarships and other prizes and to recommend for the award of the same;\n(x) To make recommendations to the Executive Council in regard to the appointment of examiners and if necessary their removal and fixation of their fees, emoluments and travelling and other expenses;\n(xi) To recommend arrangements for the conduct of examinations and the date for holding them;\n(xii) To declare or review the result of the various examinations or to appoint committees or officers to do so, and to make recommendations regarding the conferment or grant of degrees, honours, diplomas, licences, titles and marks of honour;\n(xiii) To recommend stipends, scholarships, medals and prizes and to make other awards in accordance with the regulations and such other conditions as may be attached to the awards;\n(xiv) To approve or revise lists of prescribed or recommended text books and to publish the same and syllabus of the prescribed courses of study;\n(xv) To approve such forms and registers as are from time to time, required by the Regulations; and\n(xvi) To perform, in relation to academic matters, all such duties and to do all such acts as may be necessary for the proper carrying out of the provisions of this Act and the Regulations made thereunder.\n(ii) One half of the existing members of the Academic Council shall form the quorum for a meeting of the Academic Council;\n(iii) In case of difference of opinion among the members, the opinion of the majority shall prevail;\n(iv) Each member of the Academic Council, including the Chairman of the Academic Council, have one vote and if there be an equality of votes on any question to be determined by the Academic Council, the Chairman of the Academic Council, or as the case may be, the member presiding over the meetings, shall in addition, have a casting vote;\n(v) Every meeting of the Academic Council shall be presided over by the Vice Chancellor and in his absence by a member chosen in the meeting to preside on the occasion;\n(vi) If urgent action by the Academic Council becomes necessary, the Chairman of the Academic Council may permit the business to be transacted by the circulation of papers to the members of the Academic Council.The decision taken shall not be valid unless agreed to, by a majority of the members of the Academic Council. The decision so taken shall forthwith be intimated to all the members of the Academic Council. In case the Academic Council fails to take decision the matter shall be referred to the Chancellor whose decision shall be final.",
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"content": "(a) The Chancellor;\n(b) The Vice-Chancellor;\n(c) Two Directors A/ice-Chancellors of Law Universities nominated by the Chancellor;\n(d) Two eminent Professors of Law nominated by the Vice-Chancellor;\n(e) Attorney General of India;\n(f) Solicitor General of India;\n(g) Chairman, Bar Council of India.",
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"title": "17. Finance Committee.",
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"content": "(a) The Vice-Chancellor;\n(b) The Registrar;\n(c) Commissioner-cum-Secretary, Human Resource Development Department, Bihar; and\n(d) Two other members nominated by the Executive Council from amongst its members, of whom one shall be a Professor.\n(a) to examine and scrutinize the annual budget of the University and to make recommendations on financial matters to the Executive Council;\n(b) to consider all proposals for new expenditure and to make recommendations to the Executive Council;\n(c) to consider the periodical statement of accounts and to review the finances of the University from time to time and to consider re-appropriation statements and audit reports and to make recommendations to the Executive Council;\n(d) to give its views and to make recommendations to the Executive Council on any financial question affecting the University either on its own initiative or on reference from the Executive Council or the Vice-Chancellor.\nChapter IV\nOfficers of the University",
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"content": "(a) the Vice-Chancellor;\n(b) the Registrar;\n(c) Heads of the Departments;\n(d) such other officers as may be prescribed by the Statutes as the officer.",
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"content": "(ii) The Vice-Chancellor shall be appointed by the Chancellor from out of a panel of not less than three persons recommended (the names being arranged in the alphabetical order) by a committee constituted under Clause (iii):\n(iii) The Committee referred to in clause (ii) shall consist of three members of whom one shall be nominated by the Executive Council, one by the University Grants Commission and one by the Government; and the member nominated by the Government shall be Convenor of the Committee:\n(iv) The Vice-Chancellor shall hold office for a term of five years from the date on which he enters upon his office, or until he attains the age of seventy years, whichever is earlier, and he shall be eligible for re-appointment for further terms till he attains the age of seventy years :\n(v) The emoluments and other conditions of service of the Vice-Chancellor shall be as prescribed by Regulations;\n(vi) If the office of the Vice-Chancellor becomes vacant due to death, resignation or otherwise or if he is unable to perform his duties due to ill health or any other cause, the Chancellor shall have the authority to designate a Professor of the University to perform the functions of the Vice-Chancellor until the new Vice-Chancellor assumes his office or until the existing Vice Chancellor attends to the duties of his office, as the case may be.\n(i) Ensure that the provisions of this Act, Statutes and Regulations are duly implemented and he shall have all powers, as are necessary, for that purpose;\n(ii) Convene the meetings of the General Council, the Executive Council, and the Academic Council and shall perform all other acts, as may be necessary to give effect to the provisions of this Act;\n(iii) Preside over the meetings of the General Council in the absence of the Chancellor;\n(iv) Be the competent authority to appoint the teachers, librarian, finance officer and other officers in consultation with the Chancellor on the recommendations of the Selection Committee appointed by the Executive Council in accordance with the guidelines prescribed;\n(v) Be the competent authority to take disciplinary action against the above officers in accordance with the procedure prescribed;\n(vi) Have all powers relating to the maintenance of proper discipline in the University;\n(vii) If, in the opinion of the Vice-Chancellor, any such emergency has arisen which requires immediate action be taken, he shall take such action as he may deem fit and shall report the same for confirmation in the next meeting of the authority which in the ordinary course would have dealt with the matter.",
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