Rajasthan University of Health Science Act, 2005
No: 1 Dated: Feb, 26 2005
THE RAJASTHAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES ACT, 2005
(Act No. 1 of 2005)
An Act to establish and incorporate the Rajasthan University of Health sciences, at Jaipur in the State of Rajasthan.
Be it enacted by the Rajasthan State Legislature in the Fifty-sixty year of the Republic of India, as follows:
CHAPTER-I
Preliminary
1. Short title, extent and commencement:- (1) This Act may be called the Rajasthan University of Health Science Act, 2005.
(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Rajasthan
(3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on and from 22ndSeptember, 2004
2. Definitions:- in this Act, unless the subject or context otherwise requires:-
(a) “Academic Council’' means the Academic Council of the University as constituted under section 24;
(b) “Affiliated college” means an educational institution admitted to the privileges of the University;
(c) “Board” means the Board of Management of the University constituted under section 22;
(d) “Constituent College” means a college maintained by the University;
(e) “Faculty” means a Faculty of the University;
(f)“Prescribed” means prescribed by the Status;
(g) “Principal” means the Chief Executive Officer of a college or any person duly appointed to act as such;
(h) “Resident” means a student of post-graduate diploma, or postgraduate or super-specialty courses to the Medical Colleges;
(i) “Statutes”, “Ordinances" and “Regulations” means, respectively, the Statutes, Ordinances and Regulation of the University made under this Act;
(j) "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,;
(k) “Teacher" means a person appointed or recognized by the University for the purpose of imparting instruction or conducting and guiding research and includes a person who may be declared by the Statutes to be a teacher;
(l) “University" means the Rajasthan University of Health Sciences, established and incorporated under this Act;
(m) “University Department” means a Department maintained by the University.
CHAPTER-II
The University
3. Incorporation of the University:- (1) The Chancellor and the first Vice-chancellor of the University and the first members of the Board and the Academic Council and all persons who may hereafter become such officers or members, so long as they continue to hold such office or membership, will constitute a body corporate by the name of “Rajasthan University of Health Sciences’’, and shall have perpetual succession and a common seal and may by that name sue and be sued.
(2) The University shall be competent to acquire and hold property, both movable and immovable, to lease, sell or otherwise transfer or dispose of any movable or immovable property, which may vest in or be acquired by it for the purposes of the University, and to contract and do all other things necessary for the purposes of this Act:
Provided that no such lease, sale or transfer of such property shall be made without the prior approval of the state Government
(3) The Headquarters of the University shall be at Jaipur, which shall be the headquarters of the Vice-chancellor.