Jamia Millia Islamia Act, 1988
No: 58 Dated: Oct, 08 1988
Jamia Millia Islamia Act, 1988
(Act No. 58 of 1988)
An Act to establish and incorporate a teaching University in the Union territory of Delhi and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Whereas it is expedient to establish and incorporate a teaching University at New Delhi, to dissolve the "Jamia Millia Islamia Society, Delhi", a society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 (21 of 1860) and to transfer to and vest in the said University all properties and rights of the said Society;
Be it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-ninth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
1. Short title and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the Jamia Millia Islamia Act, 1988.
(2) It shall come into force on such [date] as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
2. Definitions. - In this Act, and in all Statutes made hereunder, unless the contest otherwise requires, -
(a) "academic staff" means such categories of staff as are designated as academic staff by the Ordinances;
(b) "Amir-i-Jamia (Chancellor)" and "Shaikh-ul-Jamia (Vice-Chancellor)" mean, respectively, the Amir-i-Jamia (Chancellor) and Shaikh-ul-Jamia (Vice-Chancellor) of the University;
(c) "Anjuman (Court)" means the Anjuman (Court) of the University;
(d) "Board of Studies" means the Board of Studies of the University;
(e) "Department" means a Department of Studies, and includes a Centre of Studies and Research;
(f) "employee" means any person appointed by the University, and includes teachers and other staff of the University;
(g) "Faculty" means a Faculty of the University;
(h) "Hall" means a unit of residence or of corporate life for the students of the University;
(i) "Institution" means an Academic Institution, established or maintained by the University;
(j) "Majlis-i-Muntazimah (Executive Council)" means the Majlis-i-Muntazimah (Executive Council) of the University;
(k) "Majlis-i-Talimi (Academic Council)" means the Majlis-i-Talimi (Academic Council) of the University;
(l) "Principal" means the head of an Institution, School or Polytechnic and includes where there is on Principal, the person for the time being duly appointed to act as Principal, and, in the absence of the Principal or acting Principal, a Vice-Principal duly appointed as such;
(m) "Statutes", "Ordinances" and "Regulations" mean, respectively, the Statutes, Ordinances and Regulations of the University for the time being in force;
(n) "teachers of the University" means Professors, Readers, Lecturers and such other persons as may be appointed for imparting instruction or conducting research in the University and are designated as teachers by the Ordinances;
(o) "University" means the educational institution known as "Jamia Millia Islamia" founded in 1920 during the Khilafat and Non-Co-operation Movements in response to Gandhiji's call for a boyctt of all Government-sponsored educational institutions which was subsequently registered in 1939 as Jamia Millia Islamia Society, and declared in 1962 as an institution deemed to be a University under section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 (3 of 1956), and which is incorporated as a University under this Act.
3. The University. - (1) There shall be established a University by the name of the Jamia Millia Islamia.
(2) The headquarters of the University shall be at New Delhi.
(3) The persons holding office as Amir-i-Jamia (Chancellor) and Shaikh-ul-Jamia (Vice-Chancellor) and the members of the Anjuman (Court), the Majlis-i-Muntazimah (Executive Council) and the Majlis-i-Talimi (Academic Council) of the University, for the time being, shall be a body corporate by the name of the Jamia, Millia Islamia and shall have perpetual succession and a common seal and shall sue and be sued by that name.
4. Dissolution of the Jamia Millia Islamia Society and transfer of all property to the University. - On and from the commencement of this Act,-
(i) the Society known as the Jamia Millia Islamia Society, Delhi, shall be dissolved, and all property, movable or immovable, and all rights, powers and privileges of the said Society shall be transferred to and vest in the University and shall be applied to the objects and purposes for which the University is established;
(ii) all debts, liabilities and obligations of the said Society shall be transferred to the University and shall thereafter be discharged and satisfied by it;
(iii) all references in any enactment to the said Society shall be construed as references to the University;
(iv) any will, deed or other documents, whether made or executed before or after the commencement of this Act, which contains any bequest, gift or trust in favour of the said Society shall be construed as if the University was therein named instead of the Society;
(v) subject to any orders which the Majlis-i-Muntazimah (Executive Council) may make, the buildings which belonged to the Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, shall continue to be known and designated by the names and style as they were known and designated immediately before the commencement of this Act;
(vi) subject to the provisions of this Act, every person employed immediately before the commencement of this Act in the Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, shall hold such employment in the University by the same tenure and on the same terms and conditions and with the same rights and privileges as to pension and gratuity as he would have held under the Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, if this Act had not been passed.