No: 12 Dated: Aug, 13 1983

SHER-I-KASHMIR INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES, (GRANT OF DEGREES) ACT, 1983

(Act No. XII of 1983)

    An Act to provide for grant of degrees, diplomas, certificates and other distinctions by the institute known as Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura, Srinagar.

    Whereas the objects of the institute are such as to empower it to grant degrees, diplomas, certificates and other distinctions.

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

1. Short title and commencement. - (1) This may be called the Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (Grant of Degrees) Act, 1983.

(2) It shall come into force on such date as the Government may, by notification in the Government Gazette, appoint.

2. Definitions. - In this Act unless the context otherwise requires,-

(a) "Government" means the Government of Jammu and Kashmir;

(b) "Institute" means the institute known as Sher-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura, Srinagar.

3. Power of Institute. - Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, the institute shall have and exercise the following powers and perform the following duties, namely:-

(a) to provide for instruction and research in such branches of science of modem medicines and other allied sciences including physical and biological sciences, as the institute may think fit;

(b) to hold examinations and grant degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions and titles;

(c) to confer honorary degree or other distinctions;

(d) to fix, demand and receive fees and other incidental charges as may be prescribed by the regulations;

(e) to do all such other acts and things as may be necessary, incidental and conducive to the attainment of any of the aforesaid duties.

4. Institute to be a University. - The institute shall for the purposes of section 3 of this Act, be deemed to be a University as if established by an Act of the Jammu and Kashmir State Legislature.

5. Power to make regulations. - The institute may make regulations to carry out the purposes of this Act.