Section 3

The University.

The Pondicherry University Act, 1985

  • Act 53 of 1985
  • Ministry of Human Resource Development
  • Department of Higher Education
About this Act

An Act to establish and incorporate a teaching and affiliating University in the Union territory of Pondicherry and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

All sections
    (1) There shall be established a University by the name of "Pondicherry University".
     (2) The headquarters of the University shall be at Pondicherry and it may also establish campuses at such other places within its jurisdiction as it may deem fit.
     (3) The first Chancellor and the first Vice-Chancellor and the first members of the Court, the Executive Council 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, are hereby constituted by a body corporate by the name of "Pondicherry University".
     (4) The University shall have perpetual succession and a common seal and shall sue and be sued by the said name.

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