Section 5:
Effect of incorporation of Institutes.
On and from the date of commencement of this Act,--
(a) any reference to an existing Institute in any other law for the time being in force or in any
contract or other instrument shall be deemed as a reference to the corresponding Institute;
(b) all properties, movable and immovable, of or belonging to an existing Institute shall vest in
the corresponding Institute;
(c) all rights and liabilities of an existing Institute shall be transferred to, and be the rights and
liabilities of the corresponding Institute;
(d) every person employed by an existing Institute immediately before such commencement shall
hold his office or service in the corresponding Institute, with the same tenure, for the same
remuneration and upon the same terms and conditions and with the same rights and privileges as to
pension, leave, gratuity, provident fund and other matters as he would have held had this Act not been
enacted, and shall continue to do so unless and until his employment is terminated or until such
tenure, remuneration, terms and conditions are duly altered by the Statutes:
Provided that if the alteration so made is not acceptable to such employee, his employment may
be terminated by the Institute in accordance with the terms and conditions of the contract with the
said employee or, if no provision is made therein in this behalf, on payment to him by the Institute, of
compensation equivalent to three months' remuneration in case of permanent employee and one
month's remuneration in the case of other employee:
Provided further that any reference, by whatever form of words, to the Director or Vice-Chancellor, and other officers of an existing Institute under any law for the time being in force, or any
instrument or other document, shall be construed as a reference to the Director, and other officers of
the corresponding Institute;
(e) every person pursuing, before commencement of this Act, any academic or research course in
an existing Institute, shall be deemed to have migrated and registered with the corresponding
Institute, on such commencement at the same level of course in the Institute from which such person
migrated; and
(f) all suits and other legal proceedings instituted or which could have been instituted by or
against an existing Institute, immediately before the commencement of this Act, shall be continued or
instituted by or against the corresponding Institute.