Presidency University Act, 2010
No: 13 Dated: Jul, 07 2010
THE PRESIDENCY UNIVERSITY ACT, 2010
West Bengal Act XIII of 2010
An Act to provide for constitution of the Presidency University and for certain matters connected therewith and incidental thereto.
Whereas it is expedient to confer on Presidency College, a Government College with rich heritage, the status of a University to enable it to function more efficiently as a teaching, training and research centre in various branches of learning and courses of study, especially in Humanities, Social and Basic Sciences, and promoting advancement and dissemination of knowledge and learning, and extending higher education, to meet the requirement of higher education and research in the subjects and to avail scope and opportunities to serve the society and the nation;
It is hereby enacted in the Sixtieth Year of the Republic of India, by the Legislature of the West Bengal, as follows:-
CHAPTER I
Preliminary
1. Short title and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the Presidency University Act, 2010.
(2) This section and section 55 shall come into force at once; and the remaining provisions of this Act shall come into force on such date or dates as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint, and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act.
2. Definitions. - In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,-
(1) "appointed day" means the date referred to in sub-section (5) of section 55;
(2) "college" means erstwhile Presidency College, Kolkata;
(3) "convocation" means a meeting of the court for the purpose of conferring degrees, titles, diplomas, certificates or other academic distinctions;
(4) "employee" in relation to the University means a person employed by the University;
(5) "financial year" means the year ending on the 31st day of March;
(6) "Governor" means the Governor of the State of West Bengal;
(7) "Librarian" means a Librarian or any other person holding a post of Librarian, by whatever name called appointed or recognized as such by the University;
(8) "Minister" means the Minister-in-charge of Higher Education Department, Government of West Bengal appointed as such by the Governor;
(9) "non-teaching staff" means the non-teaching staff appointed or recognized as such by the University not holding any teaching post or a person not holding the post of an officer or a person not holding the post of Librarian, by whatever name called;
(10) "officer" means an officer of the University;
(11) "prescribed" means prescribed by Statutes, Ordinances, Regulations and Rules made under this Act;
(12) "professional subject" means any of the subjects, namely, law, teachers' training, engineering, technology, agriculture, library and information science, mass communication and journalism, management studies or such other subject as may be prescribed by Regulations;
(13) "registered graduate" means a graduate registered under this Act at least three months prior to the date of election of members to the Court op application in the prescribed form and on payment of a fee as prescribed;
(14) "State Government" means Government of West Bengal in the Higher Education Department;
(15) "Statutes", "Ordinances", "Regulations" and" Rules" mean, respectively, the Statutes, Ordinances, Regulations and Rules made under this Act;
(16) "student" means a student of the University and includes any person enrolled by the University for pursuing any Undergraduate or Postgraduate course of study of the University;
(17) "Students' Union" means the Students' Union constituted in such manner as may be prescribed;
(18) "Teacher of the University" means a Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, or any other person, holding a teaching post including a part-time teaching post, appointed or recognized as such by the University for the purpose of imparting instruction and conduction of research in the University;
(19) "University" means the Presidency University constituted under this Act;
(20) "University College" means a college, or an institute, or a college combined with an institute, maintained and managed by the University, whether established by it or not;
(21) "University Laboratory", "University Library", "University Museum", or "University Institution" mean a laboratory, a library, a museum or an institution, as the case may be, maintained and managed by the University, whether established by it or not;
(22) "University Professor", "University Associate Professor" or "University Assistant Professor" mean a Professor including Distinguished Professor, Chair Professor, Adjunct Professor, Associate Professor and Assistant Professor respectively appointed or recognized as such by the University.
CHAPTER II
The University and its Officers
3. The University. - (1) The first Chancellor and the first Vice-Chancellor of the University and the first members of the Court and the Executive Council, and all persons who may hereafter become the Chancellor or the Vice-Chancellor of the University or the members of the Court or the Executive Council, so long as they continue to hold such office or membership, shall constitute a body corporate by the name of the Presidency University.
(2) The University shall have perpetual succession and a common seal and shall sue and be sued by the name of the Presidency University.