Mohanlal Sukhadia University Act, 1962
No: 18 Dated: Oct, 26 1963
The Mohanlal Sukhadia University Act, 1962
Act No. 18 of 1962
An Act to provide for the establishment and incorporation of a University at Udaipur in the State of Rajasthan.
Be it enacted by the Rajasthan State Legislature in the Thirteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows :-
1. Short title, extent and commencement. -(1) This Act may be called the Mohanlal Sukhadia University Act, 1962.
(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Rajasthan.
(3) It shall come into force at once.
2. Definitions. - In this Act, unless the subject or context requires otherwise,-
(a) "Academic Council" means the Academic Council of the University as constituted under section 21;
(b)"Affiliated College" means an educational institution admitted to the privileges of the University;
(bb) "Autonomous College" means an educational institution declared as such under the provisions of this Act;
(c) "Board" means the Board of Management of the University constituted under section 19;
(d) "Constituent College" means a college maintained by the University;
(e) "Faculty" means a Faculty of the University;
(f) "Prescribed" means prescribed by the Statutes of the University;
(ff) "Principal" means the chief executive officer of a college or any person duly appointed to act as such;
(g) "Registered graduate" means a graduate registered under the provisions of this Act;
(h) "Status" and "Regulations" means respectively the statutes and regulations of the University made under this Act;
(i) "Student of the University" means a person enrolled in the University for taking a course of study for a degree, diploma or other academic distinction duly instituted;
(j) "Teacher" means a person appointed or recognised by the University for the purpose of imparting instruction or conducting and guiding research XXX and includes a person who may be declared by the Statutes to be a teacher:
(k) "University" means the Mohan Lal Sukhadia University.
3. The University and its jurisdiction. - (1) The Chancellor, the Vice-chancellor and the members constituting the Board of Management of the Mohan Lal Sukhadia University in accordance with section 19 of this Act as amended by the Mohan Lal Sukhadia Agriculture University (Amendment) Act, 1984 and all persons who may hereafter become such officers or members in accordance with the said section of this Act as amended by the Mohan Lal Sukhadia University (Amendment) Act, 1987 shall, so long as they continue to hold such office or membership, be deemed to constitute or, as the case may be constitute a body corporate by the name of the Mohan Lal Sukhadia University;
(2) The University shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, shall have power to acquire, hold, manage and dispose of property, movable and immovable, including trust property and endowments, which may be or may have become or deemed to be, vested in or acquired by the University for the purposes of the University and shall sue and be sued by its corporate name.
(3) The jurisdiction of the University shall extend to, and the powers conferred by or under this Act shall be exercisable in the Law College, Udaipur School of Basic Sciences and Humanities, Udaipur by whatever name or names it may be designated and also in such other constituent, affiliated or autonomous colleges, institutes, institutions and departments within the State of Rajasthan as may be specified by notification in the Official Gazette by the State Government.
(4) The State Government may, by order in writing,-
(a) require any institute, institution or college within the territorial limits of the University to terminate, with effect from such date as may be specified in the order, its association with, or its admission to the privileges of, any other University incorporated by law to such extent as may be considered necessary and proper; or
(b) exclude, to such extent as may be considered necessary and proper, from association with, or from admission to the privileges of the University constituted by this Act any institute, institution or college specified in the order which in the opinion of the State Government, is required to be self Governing or to be associated with or admitted to the privileges of, any other University or body.