Calcutta University Act, 1951
No: 18 Dated: Jun, 29 1951
THE CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY ACT, 1951
West Bengal Act XVIII of 1951
An Act to provide for the reorganisation of the University of Calcutta and for certain matters connected therewith.
Preamble:- Whereas it is expedient to reorganise the University of Calcutta so that it may effectively function as a teaching University and continue to exercise due control over the Colleges;
AND WHEREAS it is also expedient to foster the development of academic life and corporate unity in the Colleges by so promoting co-operation among them as to utilise to the full the teaching resources available;
AND WHEREAS it is also expedient to encourage the co-ordination of resources for higher teaching and research at suitable centres in and outside Calcutta;
It is hereby enacted as follows :—
CHAPTER I
PRELIMINARY
1. Short title, and commencement:- (1) This Act may be called the Calcutta University Act, 1951.
(2) This section shall come into force at once; the rest 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,—
(a) "Affiliated College" means a College affiliated to the University of Calcutta as constituted prior to the appointed day of this Act or affiliated to the University under this Act;
(b) "appointed day" means the date referred to in subsection (4) of section 52;
(c) "Constituent College" means a College in which instruction is provided under prescribed conditions for honours as well as for post-graduate courses of study and which is recognised under this Act as a Constituent College:
Provided that if in any professional subject, no honours courses of study have been prescribed, a Professional College may be a Constituent College although no instruction is provided in that College for honours courses of study in that subject;
(d) "Hall" means a unit of residence for students, main- tained by the University;
(e) "Hostel" means a unit of residence for students, not maintained by the University but recognised under this Act as a Hostel;
(f) "Minister" means the Minister-in-Charg Department of Education of the Government of e of the West Bengal;
(g) "prescribed" means Regulations Ordinances, or prescribed by Statutes or ;
(h) "Principal" means the head of a College by whatever name called;
(i) "Professional College" means a College in which instruction is provided only for courses of study leading to any degree of the University in any professional subject and which is recognised as a Professional College under this Act;
Explanation.— In this Act "professional subject" means any of the following subjects, namely, law, medicine, engineering, education, technology, agriculture, journalism, commerce or any other subject prescribed by Statutes in this behalf;
(j) "registered graduates" means graduates registered under this Act, or the Indian Universities Act, 1904;
(k) "Statutes", "Ordinances" and "Regulations" mean respectively, the Statutes, Ordinances and Regulations of the University made under this Act and they shall be deemed to be rules within the meaning of clause (36) of section 3 of the Bengal General Clauses Act, 1899;
(l) "Teacher" means a Professor, Reader, Lecturer or any otherperson holding a teaching post, appointed or recognised by the University or appointed by a College;
(m) "Teacher of the University" means a Professor, Reader, Lecturer or any other person holding a teaching post, appointed or recognised by the University; (n) "the University" means the University of Calcutta as constituted under this Act;
(o) "University College" means a College, or an institute or a College combined with an institute maintained by the University whether instituted by it or not;
(p) "University Laboratory" means a laboratory mantained by the University, whether instituted byi or not; it
(q) "University Professor", "University Reader" or "University Lecturer" means a Professor, Reader or Lecturer appointed or recognised as such by the University.
CHAPTER II
THE UNIVERSITY AND ITS OFFICERS AND AUTHORITIES
3. The University:- (1) The first Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor of the University and the first members of the Senate, the Syndicate and the Academic Council and all persons who may hereafter become such officers or members so long as they continue to hold such office or membership shall on and from the appointed day constitute a body corporate by the name of the University of Calcutta.
(2) The University shall have perpetual succession and a common seal and shall sue and be sued by the name of the University of Calcutta.