Chaudhary Devi Lal University Sirsa Act, 2003
No: 9 Dated: Apr, 02 2003
Chaudhary Devi Lal University Sirsa Act, 2003
[Haryana Act No. 9 of 2003]
An Act to establish and incorporate a (teaching-cum-affiliating University) at Sirsa to facilitate and promote higher education with special emphasis in emerging areas of Information Technology and Computer Education, Bio-technology, Environmental Studies, Technology and Management Studies, and also to achieve excellence in these and connected fields.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Haryana in the Fifty-fourth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
1. Short title and commencement :- (1) This Act may be called Chaudhary Devi Lal University Sirsa Act, 2003
(2) It shall come into force on such date as the Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
2. Definitions.:- In this Act and in all Statutes, Ordinances and Regulations made thereunder unless the context otherwise requires
(a) “college” means a college maintained by, or admitted to the privileges of, the University under this Act;
(b) “employee" means any person appointed by the University, and includes teachers and all other staff of the University;
(c) “Government” means the Government of the State of Haryana;
(d) “institution” means an academic institution, not being a college, maintained by, or admitted to the privilege of the University;
(e) “principal” means the head of a college, and includes, when there is no principal, a vice-principal duly appointed as such and in the absence of the principal or the vice-principal the person for the time being duly appointed to act as the principal;
(f) “recognised teachers” mean such persons as are approved by the University for the purpose of imparting instruction in a college or an institution admitted to the privileges of the University;
(g) “Statutes”, “Ordinances” and “Regulations” mean respectively the Statutes, Ordinances and Regulations of the University made under This Act;
(h) “University” means Chaudhary Devil al University Sirsa as incorporated under this Act; and
(i) “University teachers” mean professors, readers, lecturers and such other persons as may be appointed for imparting instructions or conducting research in the University or in any college or institution maintained by the University and are designated as teachers by the Ordinances
3. Incorporation:- (1) There shall continue to be a body corporate by the name of Chaudhary Devi Lal University comprising of the Chancellor and the Vice-Chancellor of the University, and the members of the Court, the Executive Council and the Academic Council and all persons, who may hereafter become or be appointed as such officers or members, so long as they continue to hold such office or membership.
(2) The University shall have perpetual succession and a common seal with power to acquire, hold and dispose of property and to contract, and may by the said name sue or be sued.
4. Territorial exercise of Powers:- (1) The limits of the area within which the university shall exercise its powers shall be such as the Government may, from time to time, by notification, specify: Provided that different areas may be specified for different faculties.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, any college situated within the limits of the area specified under sub-section (1) shall, with effect from such date as may be notified in this behalf by the Government, be deemed to be associated with, and admitted to, the privileges of the University and shall cease to be associated in any way with, or be admitted to, any privileges of any other University, and different dates may be notified for different colleges:
Provided that-
(i) any student of any college associated with, or admitted to, the other University before the said date, who was studying for any degree or Diploma examination of that University shall be permitted to complete his course in preparation thereof and the University shall hold for such students examinations in accordance with the curricula of study in force in that University for such period as may be prescribed by the Statutes , Ordinances or Regulations;
(ii) any such student may, until any such examination is held by the University, be admitted to the examination of the other University and be conferred the degree, diploma or any other privilege of that University for which he qualifies on the result of such examination