Meghalaya Private Universities (Regulation of Establishment and Maintenance of Standards) Act, 2019
No: 13 Dated: Oct, 15 2019
THE MEGHALAYA PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES (REGULATION OF ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF STANDARDS) ACT, 2019
ACT NO. 13 OF 2019
An Act to provide for regulation of Private Universities in the State and for matters connected therewith. Whereas the Meghalaya Private Universities (Regulation of Establishment and Maintenance of Standard) Act, 2012 (Act No.8 of 2012), though in place, requires to be repealed and a new law be put in place for regulating the Private Universities and to ensure conformity with the observations of the Supreme Court in Prof. Yashpal versus State of Chhattisgarh and others.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Meghalaya in the Seventieth Year of the Republic of India as follows: -
1. Short title, Application and Commencement:- (1) This Act may be called the Meghalaya Private Universities (Regulation of Establishment and Maintenance of Standards) Act, 2019.
(2) It shall apply to -
(a) all Private Universities established by or incorporated under a State Act passed by any State Legislature or Union Territory in India;
(b) operating in Meghalaya including those set up in collaboration with Foreign University/Universities;
(c) offering courses in the formal or non-formal; and
(d) in the distance education mode.
(3) It shall come into force with effect from the date of notification.
3. Definitions:- In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, -
(a) "Act" means the Meghalaya Private Universities (Regulation of Establishment and Maintenance of Standard) Act, 2019;
(b) "application fee" means amount, referred to in sub-section (4) of Section 3, deposited by the sponsoring body along with the proposal and project report to establish a university in private sector;
(c) "off-campus center" means a center of the private university established by it outside the main campus (within or outside the state) operated and maintained as its constituent unit, having the university's complement of facilities, faculty and staff;
(d) "off-shore campus" means a campus of the private university established by it outside the country, operated and maintained as its constituent unit, having the university's complement of facilities, faculty and staff;
(e) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(f) "Private university" means university duly established through a State Act by a sponsoring body viz. a Society registered under the Meghalaya Registration of Societies Act, 1983 or any other corresponding law for the time being in force in a State or a Public Trust or a Company registered under Section 25 of the Companies Act, 1956;
(g) "State Government" means the State Government of Meghalaya;
(h) "study center" means a center established and maintained or recognized by the university for the purpose of advising, counseling or for rendering any other assistance required by the students used in the context of distance education; and
(i) "Student" means a person duly admitted and pursuing a programme of study.