Srinagar and Jammu Cluster Universities Act, 2016

No: 3 Dated: Jul, 08 2016

THE SRINAGAR AND JAMMU CLUSTER UNIVERSITIES ACT, 2016

(Act No. III of 2016)

    An Act to provide for the establishment of the Cluster University of the Srinagar and the Cluster University of Jammu and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

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

1. Short title and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the Srinagar and Jammu Cluster Universities Act, 2016.

(2) It shall come into force from the date of its publication in the Government Gazette.

2. Definitions. - (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-

(a) "Academic Council" means the Academic Council of the Cluster University ;

(b) "Act" means the Srinagar and Jammu Cluster Universities Act, 2016.

(c) "Affiliated College" means an institution imparting instruction for the Bachelor's Degree, Integrated Honours and Postgraduate courses recognised by the Cluster University concerned in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the Statutes ;

(d) "Autonomous College" means an institution imparting instruction for the Bachelor's Degree, Integrated Honours and Postgraduate courses with an autonomous status recognised by the Cluster University concerned in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the Statutes ;

(e) "College" means an institution maintained or admitted to its privileges by the Cluster University concerned and includes a Constituent/Autonomous/Affiliated College ;

(f) "Cluster University" means the Cluster University of Srinagar or the Cluster University of Jammu, as the case may be, created by pooling the resources of their existing Constituent Colleges ;

(g) "Constituent College" means the colleges constituting the Cluster University and recognised as such by the Syndicate of the Cluster University concerned in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the Statutes ;

(h) "Faculties", "Boards of Studies", "Board of Inspection" and "Boards of Research Studies" means the Faculties, Boards of Studies, Board of Inspection and Boards of Research Studies of a Cluster University ;

(i) "Head of the Department" means the Head of a Cluster University Teaching Department who has the status of a Professor or an Associate Professor in the Cluster University and where any Cluster University has no teaching Faculty in a subject, the person duly appointed, for the time being, by the University ;

(j) "Principal" means the Head of a College or a person duly appointed, for the time being ;

(k) "Regulations" means Regulations made under section 41 of this Act ;

(l) "Statutes" means Statutes made under section 38 of this Act ;

(m) "Syndicate" means the Syndicate of a Cluster University ;

(n) "Teachers" include Professors, Associate Professors, Assistant Professors, and any other persons imparting instructions in the University or in any College maintained or admitted to its privileges by the Cluster University ;

(o) "Teachers of the University" means persons appointed or recognized by the University for the purpose of imparting instruction, in the University or in any Constituent College ;

(p) "University Council" means the University Council of a Cluster University.

3. Incorporation. - The Cluster University of Srinagar and the Cluster University of Jammu shall be corporate bodies known by the names of the "Cluster University of Srinagar" and the "Cluster University of Jammu", each having perpetual succession and a common seal with power to acquire and hold property, movable and immovable, to transfer the same, to contract and to do all other things necessary for the purpose of its constitution and may sue or be sued by its corporate name as aforesaid.