Kashmir and Jammu Universities Act, 1969

No: 24 Dated: Nov, 10 1969

THE KASHMIR AND JAMMU UNIVERSITIES ACT, 1969

(Act No. XXIV of 1969)

    An Act to provide for the establishment of the University of Kashmir and the University of Jammu in the State.

Be it enacted by the Jammu and Kashmir State Legislature in the Twentieth Year of the Republic of India as follows :-

1. Short title. - This Act may be called the Kashmir and Jammu Universities Act, 1969.

2. Definitions. - In this Act and in all Statutes made thereunder, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,-

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

(b) "affiliated college" means an institution imparting instruction upto the Bachelor's degree excluding integrated Honours, Postgraduate and professional degree courses recognised by the University concerned in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the Statutes ;

(c) "college" means an institution maintained or admitted to its privileges by the University concerned and includes a constituent college ;

(d) "constituent college" means an institution recognised as such by the Syndicate of the University concerned in accordance with the provisions of this Act and Statutes ;

(e) "Faculties", "Board of Studies", "Board of Inspection", and "Board of Research Studies", means the Faculties, Board of Studies, Board of Inspections and Board of Research Studies of a University ;

(f) "Head of the Department" means the head of a University teaching Department who has the status of a Professor or a Reader in the University and where any University has no teaching department in a subject, the senior most Professor in that subject in an affiliated or a constituent college ;

(g) "Principal" means the head of the college ;

(h) "Statutes" and "Regulations" means respectively the Statutes and Regulations of a University made or continued under this Act ;

(i) "Syndicate" means the Syndicate of a University ;

(j) "Teacher" means a person giving instructions on behalf of a University, in the teaching department of a University, constituent or affiliated college, and includes a Principal, Professor, Reader, Lecturer, Demonstrator, Director or Physical Education, Director of the Bureau of Educational and Vocational Guidance and a teacher of Teacher's Training College, and such member of staff of a University Library as the Syndicate of a University may declare to be a teacher ;

(k) "University" means the University of Kashmir or the University of Jammu, as the case may be ;

(l) "University Council" means the University Council of a University.

3. Universities. - (1) There shall be two Universities in the State, one in the Kashmir Division and the other in the Jammu Division, each having jurisdiction extending to its respective Division of the territories of the State.

(2) The University in the Kashmir Division shall be known as the "University of Kashmir" and the University in the Jammu Division shall be known as "University of Jammu".