Indian Institutes of Information Technology Act, 2014
No: 30 Dated: Dec, 08 2014
Indian Institutes of Information Technology Act, 2014
(Act No. 30 of 2014)
An Act to declare certain institutions of information technology to be institutions of national importance, with a view to develop new knowledge in information technology and to provide manpower of global standards for the information technology industry and to provide for certain other matters connected with such institutions or incidental thereto.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-fifth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—
CHAPTER I
PRELIMINARY
1. Short title and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the Indian Institutes of Information Technology Act, 2014.
(2) It shall come into force on such date1 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
2. Declaration of certain institutions as institutions of national importance.—Whereas the objects of the Institutes mentioned in the Schedule are such as to make them institutions of national importance, it is hereby declared that each such Institute is an institution of national importance.
3. Definitions.—In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) "Board", in relation to any Institute, means the Board of Governors referred to in sub-section (1) of section 13;
(b) "Chairperson" means the Chairperson of the Board of Governors appointed under sub-section (2) of section 13;
(c) "Council" means the Council established under sub-section (1) of section 40;
(d) "Director" means the Director of the Institute;
(e) "existing Institute" means the institute mentioned in column (3) of the Schedule;
(f) "Institute" means any of the institutions mentioned in column (5) of the Schedule;
(g) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(h) "Schedule" means the Schedule to this Act;
(i) "Senate", in relation to any Institute, means the Senate thereof;
(j) "Statutes" and "Ordinances", in relation to any Institute, means the Statutes and Ordinances of the Institute made under this Act.
CHAPTER II
THE INSTITUTES
4. Incorporation of Institutes.—(1) On and from the commencement of this Act, every existing Institute, shall be a body corporate by the same name as mentioned in column (5) of the Schedule.
(2) Every existing Institute referred to in column (5) of the Schedule shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, with power, subject to the provisions of this Act, to acquire, hold and dispose of property, both movable and immovable, and to contract, and shall, by the said name, sue or be sued.