Maharishi Dayanand University Act, 1975
No: 25 Dated: Aug, 21 1975
The Maharishi Dayanand University Act, 1975
Haryana Act No. 25 of 1975
An Act to establish and incorporate a [teaching cum affiliating University] at Rohtak for the encouragement of inter-disciplinary higher education and research with special emphasis on studies of Life Sciences and Environment and Ecological Sciences.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Haryana in the Twenty- sixth Year of the Republic of India, as follows :-
1. Short title and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the [Maharishi Dayanand University] Act, 1975.
(2) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification, appoint.
2. Definitions. - In this Act and in all statutes, ordinances and regulations made thereunder unless the context otherwise requires, -
(a) "college" means a college maintained by, or admitted to the privileges of, the University under this Act;
(b) "employee" means any person appointed by the University and includes teachers and other staff of the University;
(c) "Government" means the Government of the State of Haryana;
(d) "hall" means a unit of residence or of corporate life for the students of the University, college or institute provided, maintained or recognised by the University;
(e) "institution" means an academic institution, not being a college, maintained by, or admitted to the privileges of, the University;
(f) "principal" means the head of a college, and includes, when there is no principal, the person for the time being duly appointed to act as principal and, in the absence of the principal or the acting principal, a vice-principal duly appointed as such;
(g) "recognised teachers" means such persons as are recognised by the University for the purpose of imparting instruction in a college or an institution admitted to the privileges of the University;
(h) "statutes", "ordinances" and "regulations" mean respectively the statutes, ordinances and regulations of the University made under this Act;
(i) "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 or in any college or institution maintained by the University and are designated as teachers by the ordinances; and
(j) "University" means the Maharishi Dayanand University, as incorporated under this Act.]
3. Incorporation. - (1) The first Chancellor and the first Vice-Chancellor of the University who shall be persons appointed in this behalf by the Government by notification and the first members of the Court, the Executive Council and the Academic Council and all persons who may hereafter become or be appointed as such officers or members, so long as they continue to hold such office or membership, are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of the [Maharishi Dayanand University].
(2) The University shall have perpetual succession and a common seal with power to acquire, hold and dispose of property and to contract, and may by the said name sue or be sued.]
[4. Territorial exercise of powers. - (1) The limits of the area within which the University shall exercise its powers shall be such as the State Government may, from time to time, by notification, specify :
Provided that different areas may be specified for different faculties.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, any college situated within the limits of the area specified under sub-section (1) shall, with effect from such date as may be notified in this behalf by the Government, be deemed to be associated with, and admitted to, the privileges of the University and shall cease to be associated in any way with, or be admitted to, any privileges of any other University, and different dates may be appointed for different colleges :
Provided that -
(i) any student of any college associated with, or admitted to, the other University before the said date, who was studying for any degree or diploma examination of that University shall be permitted to complete his course in preparation therefor and the University shall hold for such student examinations in accordance with the curricula of study in force in that University for such period as may be prescribed by the statutes, ordinances or regulations;
(ii) any such student may, until any such examination is held by the University, be admitted to the examination of the other University and be conferred the degree, diploma or any other privilege of that University for which he qualified on the result of such examination.]