Spicer Adventist University Act, 2014
No: 24 Dated: Jun, 24 2014
Spicer Adventist University Act, 2014
ACT NO. XIV OF 2014
An Act to provide for establishment, incorporation and regulation of Spicer Adventist University in the State of Maharashtra for higher education and to regulate it's functioning and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Whereas it is expedient to provide for the establishment and incorporation and regulation of a self-financed university in the State by the name Spicer Adventist University; it is hereby enacted in the sixty-fifth Year of the Republic of India as follows :-
1. Short title and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called as the Spicer Adventist University Act, 2014.
(2) It shall be come into force on such date, as the State Government may by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
2. Definitions. - In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,--
(i) "Board of Management" means the Board of Management constituted under section 22 of this Act;
(ii) "campus" means the area of University within which it is established;
(iii) "distance education" means education imparted by combination of any two or more means of communication, viz. broadcasting, telecasting, correspondence courses, seminars, contact programmes and any other such methodology;
(iv) "employee" means any person appointed by the University and includes teachers, officers and other staff of the University;
(v) "fee" means monetary collection made by the University or its colleges, institutions or study centers, as the case may be, from the students by whatever name it may be called, which is not refundable;
(vi) "Government" or "State Government" means the Government of Maharashtra ;
(vii) "Governing Body" means the Governing Body constituted under section 21of this Act;
(viii) "higher education" means pursuit of knowledge beyond learning at the stage of school education;
(ix) "hostel" means a place of residence for the students of the University, or its institutions and study centers, established or recognized to be as such by the University;
(x) "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette;
(xi) "Official Gazette" means the Maharashtra Government Gazette ;
(xii) "prescribed" means prescribed by statutes or ordinances or regulations, as the case may be, made by or under this Act;
(xiii) "regulating body" means a body established by the Central Government for laying down norms and conditions for ensuring academic standards of higher education, such as University Grants Commission, All India Council of Technical Education, National Council of Teacher Education, Medical Council of India, Pharmacy Council of India, National Council of Assessment and Accreditation, Indian Council of Agriculture Research, Distance Education Council, Council of Scientific and Indian Research etc. and includes the Government;
(xiv) "section" means a section of this Act;
(xv) "Sponsoring body" means the Ashlock Education Society, Pune, registered as a Trust under the Maharashtra Public Trusts Act (XXIV of 1950);
(xvi) "State" means State of Maharashtra;
(xvii) "statutes", "ordinances" and "regulations" mean respectively, the statutes, ordinances and regulations of the University made under this Act ;
(xviii) "student" means a person enrolled in the University for taking a course of study for a degree, diploma or other academic distinction instituted by the University, including a research degree;
(xix) "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 in the context of distance education ;
(xx) "Teacher" means a Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor or any other person required to impart education or to guide research or to render guidance in any form to the students for pursuing a course of study of the University;
(xxi) "University" means Spicer Adventist University, Pune.