Tamil Nadu National Law University Act, 2012

No: 9 Dated: Feb, 23 2012

Tamil Nadu National Law University Act, 2012

(Act No. 9 of 2012)

    An Act to provide for the establishment and incorporation of a National Law University in the State of Tamil Nadu to provide quality legal education.

    Whereas legal education is an instrument of social, political and economic change;

    And Therefore to meet the challenges brought about by globalization, the State Government have decided to establish a national level institution in this State to disseminate learning and knowledge of law, legal processes, advocacy and skill in judicial administration, keeping pace with the changing global scenario;

    Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Tamil Nadu in the Sixty-third Year of the Republic of India as follows : -

CHAPTER I

Preliminary

1. Short title and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the Tamil Nadu National Law University Act, 2012.

(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Tamil Nadu.

(3) It shall come into force on such date as the Government may, by notification, appoint.

2. Definitions. - In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, -

(a) "Academic Council" means the Academic Council of the University;

(b) "Appointed date" means such date as the Government may, by notification, appoint under sub-section (3) of section 1;

(c) "Chairman" means the Chairman of the General Council;

(d) "Chancellor" means the Chancellor of the University;

(e) "Executive Council" means the Executive Council of the University;

(f) "Faculty" means a Faculty of the University;

(g) "General Council" means the General Council of the University;

(h) "Government" means the State Government;

(i) "Hostel" means a unit of residence for the students of the University, maintained or recognized by the University in accordance with the provisions of this Act and includes a hostel deemed to be recognized by the University under this Act;

(j) "prescribed" means prescribed in the regulations;

(k) "Registrar" means the Registrar of the University;

(l) "regulations" mean the regulations of the University made under this Act;

(m) "University" means the Tamil Nadu National Law University;

(n) "State" means the State of Tamil Nadu;

(o) "Teachers" mean such Assistant Professors, Associate Professors, Professors, Directors and other persons giving instruction in the Department of the University or laboratories or in hostels and Librarians and other like persons as may be declared by the regulations to be teachers;

(p) "Vice-Chancellor" means the Vice-Chancellor of the University.

CHAPTER II

The University

3. Establishment of SchooUniversity. - (1) There shall be established in the State, a University by the name "The Tamil Nadu National Law UNiversity".

(2) The University shall be a body corporate having perpetual succession and a common seal with power, subject to the provisions of this Act, to acquire and hold property, to contract and shall by the said name, sue and be sued.

(3) The headquarters of the University shall be at Srirangam Taluk, Tiruchirappalli District.

4. Objects of University. - The objects of the University shall be to advance and disseminate learning and knowledge of law and legal processes and their role in national development, to develop in the student and research scholar a sense of responsibility to serve society in the field of law by developing skills in regard to advocacy, legal services, legislation, law reforms and the like, to organize lectures, seminars, symposia and conferences to promote legal knowledge and to make law and legal processes efficient instruments of social development, to hold examinations and confer degrees and other academic distinctions and to do all such things as are incidental, necessary or conducive to the attainment of all or any of the objects of the University.