Act Number: 24

Act Name: The North-Eastern Hill University Act, 1973

Year: 1973

Enactment Date: 1973-05-26

Long Title: An Act to establish and incorporate a teaching and affiliating University for the hill areas of the North-Eastern region.

Ministry: Ministry of Human Resource Development

Department: Department of Higher Education

Section 3: The University.
    (1) There shall be established a University by the name of "North-Eastern Hill University".
     (2) The headquarters of the University shall be at Shillong and it shall have campuses in the 4 [State of Meghalaya]; 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 a body corporate by the name of "North-Eastern Hill University".
     (4) The University shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, and shall sue and be sued by the said name.
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 35 of 1989, s. 48, for "States of Meghalaya and Nagaland" (w.e.f. 6-9-1994).
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