THE GUJARAT UNIVERSITY OF TRANSPLANTATION SCIENCES ACT, 2015

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    "title": "THE GUJARAT UNIVERSITY OF TRANSPLANTATION SCIENCES ACT, 2015",
    "short_title": "The Gujarat University of Transplantation Sciences Act, 2015",
    "act_number": "9",
    "act_year": 2015,
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    "location": "Gujarat",
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    "enactment_date": "2015-04-06",
    "description": "The Gujarat University of Transplantation Sciences Act, 2015",
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            "title": "An ACT",
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            "content": "GUJARAT ACT NO. 9 OF 2015.\n(First published, after having received the assent of the Governor, in the \"Gujarat Government Gazette\", on the 7th April, 2015).\nAN ACT\nto provide for establishment and incorporation of a non-affiliating University to be known as the Gujarat University of Transplantation Sciences to impart proper and systematic instruction, teaching, training, and research in transplantation and allied sciences in the State of Gujarat and to confer the status of a University to Smt. Gulabben Rasiklal Doshi and Smt. Kamlaben Mafatlal Mehta Institute of Kidney Diseases & Research Centre - Dr. H.L. Trivedi Institute of Transplantation Sciences (IKDRC-ITS) and for the matters connected therewith and incidental thereto.\nIt is hereby enacted in the Sixty-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-",
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            "title": "CHAPTER I - PRELIMINARY",
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            "title": "Section 1. Short title and commencement",
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            "content": "1. (1) This Act may be called the Gujarat University of Transplantation Sciences Act, 2015.",
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            "content": "(2) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.",
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            "title": "Section 2. Definitions",
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            "content": "2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, -",
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            "content": "(1) \"Academic Council\" means the Academic Council of the University constituted under section 24;",
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            "content": "(2) \"Academic Service Unit\" means a University science and instrumentation centre, animal houses, animal experimental labs, cadaver labs, academic staff college, computer centre, University printing press or any other unit providing specialized services for the promotion of any of the objectives of the University;",
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            "content": "(3) \"approved institution\" means hospital, health centre, college or such other institution recognized by the University as such in which a person may undergo training, if any, required by a course of study before any degree, diploma or other academic distinction of the University is conferred;",
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            "content": "(4) \"Board of Governors\" means a Board of Governors constituted under section 20;",
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            "content": "(5) \"Dean\" means a Dean nominated by the Vice-Chancellor with the approval of the Board of Governors under section 15;",
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            "content": "(6) \"Department\" means a department designated as such teaching a particular subject or a group of subjects or a unit set up for the purpose of imparting instruction for courses of study in transplantation and allied sciences in the University;",
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            "content": "(7) \"Executive Council\" means the Executive Council of the University constituted under section 22;",
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            "content": "(8) \"Finance Committee\" means the Finance Committee of the University constituted under section 26;",
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            "content": "(9) \"Field Unit\" means a unit established outside the University area for validating and disseminating the benefits of new techniques and practices developed by the University;",
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            "content": "(10) \"Government\" means the Government of Gujarat;",
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            "content": "(11) \"Governing Body\" means the Governing Body of the Institute;\n\"Hostel\" means units of residence for the students of the University maintained or recognized by the University;",
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            "content": "(12) \"Institute\" means Smt. Gulabben Rasiklal Doshi and Smt. Kamlaben Mafatlal Mehta Institute of Kidney Diseases & Research Centre Dr. H.L. Trivedi Institute of Transplantation Sciences (IKDRC-ITS), registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860;",
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            "number": "2",
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            "content": "(13) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by the Regulations made under section 38;",
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            "content": "(14) \"Pro-Chancellor\" means the Pro-Chancellor of the University appointed under section 10;",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(15)",
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            "content": "(15) \"Recognized institution\" means an institution of higher learning, research or specialized studies recognized as such by the University;",
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            "content": "(16) \"Registrar\" means the Registrar of the University appointed under section 16;",
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            "content": "(17) \"Regulations\" means Regulations of the University made under section 38;",
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            "title": "Section 2(18)",
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            "content": "(18) \"Research Laboratories\" means the place where research in the field of Cell, Tissue and Solid Organ Transplantation, Bio-engineering, Bio-chemistry, Tissue-typing, Micro-arrays, Genetics and Translational Research in Humans, Animals, Micro-organisms and Viruses, Xeno-Transplantation and such other fields is carried out;",
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            "title": "Section 2(19)",
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            "content": "(19) \"student\" means a person enrolled in the University for undergoing a course of a study for a degree, diploma, titles or other academic distinctions of the University;",
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            "content": "(20) \"Teacher\" includes a Dean, Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor and such other person(s) imparting instruction in a constituent college or approved institution and also includes Adjunct Professor;",
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            "title": "Section 2(21)",
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            "content": "(21) \"Transplantation\" means the grafting of any living cell, tissue, part of organ or whole organ from any living or deceased organism, tissue engineered or genetically engineered structure from any organism into living being for therapeutic or research purposes;",
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            "title": "Section 2(22)",
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            "content": "(22) \"University\" means the \"Gujarat University of Transplantation Sciences\" established and incorporated under section 3.",
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            "title": "CHAPTER II - UNIVERSITY",
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            "content": "CHAPTER II\nUNIVERSITY",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "Section 3. Establishment and incorporation of University",
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            "content": "3. (1) There shall be established a University, by the name of the \"Gujarat University of Transplantation Sciences\".",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "Section 3(2)",
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            "content": "(2) The Pro-Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, Deans, Registrar, Finance and Accounts Officer, Controller of Examinations, Board of Governors, Executive Council, Academic Council, Finance Committee and all other persons who may hereafter become such officers or members so long as they continue to hold such office or membership, shall constitute a body corporate by the name of the \"Gujarat University of Transplantation Sciences\".",
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            "content": "(3) The University shall be a body corporate, by the name specified in sub-section (1) and shall have perpetual succession and a common seal and shall sue and be sued by the said name.",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "Section 3(4)",
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            "content": "(4) The University shall be competent to acquire and hold property, both movable and immovable, to sell, lease or otherwise transfer or dispose of any movable or immovable property, which may vest in or be acquired by it for the purposes of the University, and to contract and do all other things necessary for the purposes of this Act:",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "Proviso to Section 3(4)",
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            "content": "Provided that, no such sale, lease or transfer of such property shall be made without the valuation made thereof by the approved valuer appointed by the University and without the prior sanction of the State Government.",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "Section 3(5)",
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            "content": "(5) The University shall function as a non-affiliating University.",
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            "number": "4",
            "title": "Section 4. Headquarters of University",
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            "content": "4. The headquarters of the University shall be at Ahmedabad.",
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            "number": "5",
            "title": "Section 5. Jurisdiction of University",
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            "content": "5. (1) The University shall have its jurisdiction in the whole of the State of Gujarat.",
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            "number": "5",
            "title": "Section 5(2)",
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            "content": "(2) The University may assume responsibility for the establishment and maintenance of Training or Educational Centers, Research and Experimental centers and undertake extension activities and the programmes of training through such centers as may be required in various parts of the State.",
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            "number": "5",
            "title": "Section 5(3)",
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            "content": "(3) The University may establish additional campuses at such other places with the prior approval of the State Government within the State of Gujarat, as it may deem fit and appropriate.",
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            "number": "6",
            "title": "Section 6. Objects of University",
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            "content": "6. The objects of the University shall be to disseminate, create and preserve knowledge and understanding by teaching, research, extension and service and by effective demonstration in the field of transplantation and allied sciences and influence of its corporate life on society in general, and in particular the objects shall be-",
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            "number": "6",
            "title": "Section 6(i)",
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            "content": "(i) to provide for efficient and responsive administration, scientific management and develop organization of teaching and research;",
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            "title": "Section 6(ii)",
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            "content": "(ii) to create a centre of excellence for providing educational and research facilities of high order in the field of transplantation and allied sciences in the existing super-specialties and such other super-specialties as may develop in future, including cell and tissue transplantation, solid organ transplantation, composite tissue transplantation, xeno transplantation, cell, tissue and bio-engineering, genetics and translational research in humans, animals, micro-organisms and viruses;",
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            "number": "6",
            "title": "Section 6(iii)",
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            "content": "(iii) to attain the highest standards of academic excellence by providing the necessary physical infrastructure and creating an intellectual environment conducive to free flow of ideas and meaningful exchange of information;",
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            "number": "6",
            "title": "Section 6(iv)",
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            "content": "(iv) to provide for the courses and training in paramedical and allied fields, particularly in relation to transplantation and allied sciences;",
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            "number": "6",
            "title": "Section 6(v)",
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            "content": "(v) to bring about qualitative improvement in teaching and learning process;",
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            "number": "6",
            "title": "Section 6(vi)",
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            "content": "(vi) to inculcate the practice of creating instructional experiences which make the acquisition of knowledge and skill moré efficient and effective;",
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            "number": "6",
            "title": "Section 6(vii)",
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            "content": "(vii) to facilitate and promote studies leading to award of degrees, diplomas and certificates and other academic distinctions;",
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        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "Section 6(viii)",
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            "content": "(viii) to help foster bond between research and academic institutions for better planning, management, execution, maintenance and standards of transplantation;",
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        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "Section 6(ix)",
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            "content": "(ix) to develop as National Referral Centre in the field of cell, tissue and organ transplantation;",
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            "number": "6",
            "title": "Section 6(x)",
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            "content": "(x) to do such other acts and activities as may be necessary in furtherance of the objects of the University.",
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            "number": "7",
            "title": "Section 7. Powers and functions of University",
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            "content": "7. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the University shall exercise the following powers and perform the following functions, namely:-",
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            "number": "7",
            "title": "Section 7(i)",
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            "content": "(i) to formulate and implement syllabi and curricula for various academic courses of the University;",
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            "number": "7",
            "title": "Section 7(ii)",
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            "content": "(ii) to establish, maintain and manage University Departments, laboratories, research laboratories, libraries, museums and equipments for teaching and research, and institutions of research and specialized studies or academic service units;",
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            "number": "7",
            "title": "Section 7(iii)",
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            "content": "(iii) to organize, maintain and manage centres, hostels, halls of residence, University auditoria, gymnasiums, residential accommodations for advanced/research students and staff of the University;",
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            "number": "7",
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            "content": "(iv) to provide for dissemination of the findings of research, technology and technical information through extension educational programmes;",
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            "number": "7",
            "title": "Section 7(v)",
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            "content": "(v) to hold examinations and to confer degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions, including honorary degrees or other distinctions conferred or granted by the University in the manner and under conditions as may be prescribed by the regulations;",
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            "number": "7",
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            "content": "(vi) to collaborate and co-operate with other Universities in such manner and for such purposes as the University may determine, including Foreign Universities, institutions, authorities or organizations or agencies for research, collaborative programmes, advisory services subject to the prior approval of the State Government and subject to the rules and regulations of the Central Government and the State Government in that behalf;",
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            "number": "7",
            "title": "Section 7(vii)",
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            "content": "(vii) to create post for teaching, research, extension education, administrative, ministerial and other purposes, and to make appointment, and to prescribe the qualifications in accordance with the guidelines thereto of the University Grants Commission, or concerned professional regulatory bodies;",
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            "number": "7",
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            "content": "(viii) to institute and award fellowship, scholarships, stipends, medals, prizes and other awards, to hold and manage trusts and endowments for teachers and students of the University;",
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            "number": "7",
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            "content": "(ix) to fix, demand, receive and recover such fees and other charges, as may be prescribed by the regulations;",
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            "number": "7",
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            "content": "(x) to lay down and regulate the scale of salaries and allowances and other conditions of service of members of the teaching, other academic, administrative and support staff of the University. The scales of salaries and allowances shall be implemented with the approval of the State Government;",
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            "number": "7",
            "title": "Section 7(xi)",
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            "content": "(xi) to establish, conduct and promote centres, such as,- Centre of Research, Centre of Education, Centre of Training, Centre of Extension Activities and to provide for facilities even to the remote areas of the State, etc.;",
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            "number": "7",
            "title": "Section 7(xii)",
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            "content": "(xii) to appoint or recognize persons working in any other University or organization as Adjunct Professor, Adjunct Associate Professor, Adjunct Assistant Professor, and to invite Professor Emeritus, Visiting Professors of the University for specified periods, and to facilitate mobility of academic members within the University and to other universities;",
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            "number": "7",
            "title": "Section 7(xiii)",
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            "content": "(xiii) to prescribe for conduct and discipline rules for teaching, administrative and support staff and to ensure the enforcement thereof;",
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            "number": "7",
            "title": "Section 7(xiv)",
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            "content": "(xiv) to establish, maintain and manage whenever necessary, - University Extension Board; (i) a printing and publication department; (ii) Information Bureaus;",
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            "number": "7",
            "title": "Section 7(xv)",
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            "content": "(xv) to accept, hold and manage any endowments, donations or funds which may become vested in it for the purposes of the University by grant, testamentary disposition or otherwise, and to invest such endowments, donations or funds in accordance with the provisions of this Act:",
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            "number": "7",
            "title": "Proviso to Section 7(xv)",
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            "content": "Provided that no donation from a foreign country, foreign foundation or any person in such country, foundation shall be accepted by the University save with approval of the Central Government or the State Government, as the case may be;",
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            "number": "7",
            "title": "Section 7(xvi)",
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            "content": "(xvi) to lay down for teachers, service conditions including code of conduct, workload, norms of performance appraisal, and such other instructions or directions as, in the opinion of the University, may be necessary in academic matter;",
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            "number": "7",
            "title": "Section 7(xvii)",
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            "content": "(xvii) to institute and award degrees, diploma certificates and other academic distinctions for persons who shall have pursued approved courses of study in a University college unless exempted therefrom in the manner prescribed and shall have passed the prescribed examinations of the University or shall have carried on research satisfactorily under conditions as may be prescribed;",
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            "number": "7",
            "title": "Section 7(xviii)",
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            "content": "(xviii) to develop, upgrade and start department in transplantation and allied specialties as may be required and to provide instruction for such courses of study as it may determine;",
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            "number": "7",
            "title": "Section 7(xix)",
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            "content": "(xix) to prescribe conditions under which the award of degree, title, diploma and other academic distinctions may be withheld;",
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            "number": "7",
            "title": "Section 7(xx)",
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            "content": "(xx) to institute, maintain and administer University colleges, hospitals and laboratories and institutes of research, library or other institutions necessary to carry out the objects of the University;",
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            "number": "7",
            "title": "Section 7(xxi)",
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            "content": "(xxi) to establish, maintain and administer hostel blocks, to recognize hostels not managed by the University and to suspend or withdraw such recognition therefrom;",
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            "number": "9",
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            "number": "10",
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            "number": "10",
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            "content": "(2) The Pro-Chancellor shall be an eminent person with atleast 20 years of experience in the field of transplantation which may include the experience of research in the field transplantation.",
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            "number": "10",
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            "number": "10",
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            "content": "(4) Where a vacancy in the office of the Pro-Chancellor occurs on account of death, resignation or otherwise, the State Government shall appoint as soon as possible, a suitable person to be the Pro-Chancellor of the University in accordance with the provision of sub-section (1).\nTill such appoint is made by the State Government, the Vice-Chancellor shall perform the duties and discharge the functions of the Pro-Chancellor.",
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            "number": "10",
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            "content": "(5) The Pro-Chancellor may resign from his office by writing under his hand addressed to the State Government and such resignation shall take effect from the date of acceptance by the State Government.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "11",
            "title": "Section 11. Powers of Pro-Chancellor",
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            "content": "11. (1) The Pro-Chancellor shall preside over the meetings of the Board of Governors and at the convocation of the University.",
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            "number": "11",
            "title": "Section 11(2)",
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            "content": "(2) The Pro-Chancellor shall exercise such other powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him by or under this Act or regulations made thereunder.",
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            "number": "11",
            "title": "Section 11(3)",
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            "content": "(3) The Pro-Chancellor shall have, subject to the provisions of this Act, power to cause an inspection or review, to be made by such person or persons as he may direct, of the University, its buildings, hostels, libraries, equipments and systems and processes of any institution or center maintained by the University, and also of the examinations, teaching, research and other work conducted or done by the University and to cause an inquiry to be made in like manner in respect of any matter connected with the administration, academic affairs and finances of the University.",
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            "number": "12",
            "title": "Section 12. Vice-Chancellor",
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            "number": "12",
            "title": "Section 12(2)",
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            "number": "12",
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            "content": "(3) The Vice-Chancellor shall hold office for a period of five years and shall be eligible for reappointment.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "12",
            "title": "Section 12(4)",
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            "content": "(4) Where a vacancy in the office of the Vice-Chancellor occurs on account of death, resignation or otherwise, the State Government shall appoint as soon as possible, a suitable person to be the Vice-Chancellor of the University in accordance with the provision of sub-section (1).",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
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            "number": "12",
            "title": "Section 12(5)",
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            "content": "(5) The Vice-Chancellor may resign from his office by writing under his hand addressed to the State Government through the Pro-Chancellor, and such resignation shall take effect from the date of acceptance by the State Government.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 920
        },
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            "number": "13",
            "title": "Section 13. Powers and functions of Vice-Chancellor",
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            "content": "13. The Vice-Chancellor shall -\nexercise general supervision and control over the day to day affairs of the University, preside over at the meetings of the Executive Council, Academic Council and the Finance Committee;\n(ii) ensure implementation of the decisions of the authorities of the University;\n(iii) be responsible for imparting of instruction and maintenance of discipline in the University, and ensure that the provisions of this Act and the regulations are properly followed;\n(iv) exercise such other powers and perform such other duties as may be assigned to him by or under this Act or the regulations or as may be delegated to him by the Board of Governors or by the Pro-Chancellor.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "Section 14. Emergency powers of Vice-Chancellor",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "14. (1) Where any matter is of an urgent nature requiring immediate action and the same cannot be immediately dealt with by the Pro-Chancellor or any authority or body of the University empowered under this Act to deal with it, the Vice-Chancellor may take such action as he may deem fit, and shall forthwith report the action so taken by him to the authority or body of the University who or which, in the ordinary course, would have dealt with the matter.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "14",
            "title": "Section 14(2)",
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            "number": "15",
            "title": "Section 15. Deans",
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            "content": "15. (1) There shall be Deans, who shall be the academic officers of the University concerned with and responsible for implementation of the academic policies approved by the Academic Council in respect of academic development, maintenance of standards of teaching and training of teachers.",
            "footnote": "",
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        },
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            "number": "15",
            "title": "Section 15(2)",
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            "content": "(2) The Deans shall be nominated by the Vice-Chancellor from amongst the Professors of the University after having obtained the approval from the Board of Governors for the same.",
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            "number": "15",
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            "number": "15",
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            "content": "(4) The Deans shall assist the Vice-Chancellor in managing the academic and other affairs of the University and shall exercise such powers and discharge such duties as may be prescribed by the regulations or as may be entrusted by the Vice-Chancellor.",
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        "Act ID": "201509",
        "Act Number": "9",
        "Enactment Date": "2015-04-06",
        "Act Year": "2015",
        "Short Title": "The Gujarat University of Transplantation Sciences Act, 2015",
        "Department": "Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs Department, Government of Gujarat",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Gujarat"
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    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:17"
}