Diamond Harbour Women's University Act, 2012
No: 37 Dated: Jan, 28 2013
THE DIAMOND HARBOUR WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY ACT, 2012
West Bengal Act XXXVII of 2012
An Act to provide for constitution of the Diamond Harbour Women's University and for certain matters incidental thereto and connected therewith.
WHEREAS it is expedient to constitute the Diamond Harbour Women's University to enable it to function efficiently as a University encouraging and providing for instruction, teaching, training and research in various branches of learning and courses of study, promoting advancement and dissemination of knowledge and learning, and extending higher education to the women of the society and to make the constitution of various authorities or bodies of the University more democratic;
It is hereby enacted in the Sixty-third 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 Diamond Harbour Women's University Act, 2012.
(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) "convocation" means a meeting of the Court for the purpose of conferring degrees, titles, diplomas, certificates or other academic distinctions;
(3) "distance education" means instruction imparted through correspondence or distance mode as recognized by the appropriate authority;
(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) "hall" or "hostel" means a unit of residence of students maintained by the University;
(8) "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;
(9) "Minister" means the Minister-in-charge of Higher Education appointed as such by the Governor;
(10) "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;
(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 on application in the prescribed form and on payment of a fee as prescribed;
(14) "State Government" means Government of West Bengal in the Department of Higher Education;
(15) "Statutes", "Ordinances", "Regulations" and "Rules" mean, respectively, the Statutes, Ordinances, Regulations and Rules 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;
(16) "Student" means a girl or a woman student of the University and includes any girl or woman enrolled by the University for pursuing any Undergraduate or Post-Graduate course of study of the University;
(17) "Students' Union" means the Students' Union constituted in the manner prescribed;
(18) "Teacher of the University" means a Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor or any other person, holding a whole-time substantive teaching post and appointed in a permanent vacancy in a University with prior approval of the State Government;
(19) "University" means the Diamond Harbour Women's 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" means 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.
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 Diamond Harbour Women's University.
(2) This University shall have perpetual succession and a common seal and shall sue and be sued by the name of the Diamond Harbour Women's University.