Act Number: 29

Act Name: The Visva-Bharati Act, 1951

Year: 1951

Enactment Date: 1951-05-09

Long Title: An Act to declare the institution known as "Visva-Bharati" to be an institution of national importance and to provide for its functioning as a unitary teaching and residential university.

Ministry: Ministry of Human Resource Development

Department: Department of Higher Education

Section 4: Incorporation.
    The first Acharya (Chancellor) and Upacharya (Vice-Chancellor) of the University who shall be the persons appointed in this behalf by the Central Government by notification in the Official Gazette, and the first members of the Samsad (Court) and all persons, who may hereafter become or be appointed as such officers or members, so long as they continue to hold such office or membership, are hereby constituted a body corporate 1[as a unitary, teaching and residential University] by the name of Visva-Bharati, and shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, and shall sue and be sued by that name.
Notes:
1. Ins. by Act 60 of 1961, s. 4 (w.e.f. 19-12-1961).
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