Kannur University Act, 1996

No: 22 Dated: Nov, 09 1996

Kannur University Act, 1996

(Act 22 of 1996)

    An Act to establish and incorporate University of Kannur by the name Kannur University.

    Preamble. - Whereas it is considered necessary to establish a teaching, residential and affiliating University in the State of Kerala to provide for the development of higher education in the Kasaragod and Kannur revenue districts and the Mananthavady taluk of the Wayanad district in the State which are lagging in the field of higher education;

Be it enacted in the Forty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:-

CHAPTER I

Preliminary

1. Short title and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the Kannur University Act, 1996.

(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 9th day of November 1995.

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

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

(ii) "affiliated college" means a college affiliated to the University in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the Statutes and in which instruction is provided in accordance with the provisions of the statutes, Ordinances and Regulations;

(iii) "annual meeting" means one of the ordinary meetings of the Senate held every year under sub-section (1) of section 22 and declared by the Statutes to be the annual meeting of the Senate;

(iv) "Appellate Tribunal" means the Appellate Tribunal constituted under sub-section (1) of section 72;

(v) "Board of Studies" means a Board of Studies of the University;

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

(vii) "college" means an institution maintained by, or affiliated to the University in which instruction is given in accordance with the provisions of the Statutes, Ordinances and Regulations;

(viii) "department" means a department designated as such by the Ordinances or Regulations with reference to a subject or group of subjects;

(ix) "educational agency" means any person or body of persons who or which establishes and maintains a private college or more than one private college;

(x) "faculty" means a faculty of the University;

(xi) "Government college" means a college maintained by the Government and affiliated to the University;

(xii) "hostel" means a unit of residence for the students of the University or the colleges;

(xiii) "non-teaching staff" of the University or a college means the employees of the University or that college, as the case may be, other than teachers;

(xiv) "prescribed" means prescribed by the Statutes, Ordinances, Regulations, rules or bye-laws made under this Act;

(xv) "principal" means the head of a college;

(xvi) "private college" means a college maintained by an educational agency other than the Government or the University and affiliated to the University;

(xvii) "Pro-Chancellor" means the Pro-Chancellor of the University;