Act Number: 3

Act Name: The University Grants Commission Act, 1956

Year: 1956

Enactment Date: 1956-03-03

Long Title: An Act to make provision for the co-ordination and determination of standards in Universities and for that purpose, to establish a University Grants Commission.

Ministry: Ministry of Human Resource Development

Department: Department of Higher Education

Section 16: Fund to the Commission.
    (1) The Commission shall have its own Fund; and all sums which may, from time to time, be paid to it by the Central Government and all the receipts of the Commission (including any sum which any State Government or any other authority or person may hand over to the Commission) shall be carried to the Fund and all payments by the Commission shall be made therefrom.
     (2) All moneys belonging to the Fund shall be deposited in such banks or invested in such manner as may, subject to the approval of the Central Government, be decided by the Commission.
     (3) The Commission may spend such sums as it thinks fit for performing its functions under this Act, and such sums shall be treated as expenditure payable out of the Fund of the Commission.
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