Higher Education Act (No. 20 of 1966)

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Higher Education Act (No. 20 of 1966) - Sect 46

Powers and duties of the Board of Regents of a University

46.

(1) The Board of Regents of a University shall, subject to the provisions of this Act and of any appropriate Instrument, exercise, discharge and perform the powers, functions and duties conferred or imposed on the University.

(2) Subject to the provisions of this Act and of any appropriate Instrument, the Board of Regents of a University shall have, and may exercise and perform, the following powers and duties: -

	(a) to hold, control and administer the property and funds of the University;

	(b) to select a coat of arms for the University, and to determine the form, provide for the custody and direct the use, of the common seal of the University;

	(c) to regulate and determine all matters concerning the University in accordance with the provisions of this Act and of any appropriate Instrument;

	(d) to administer any funds placed at the disposal of the University for specific purposes;

	(e) to receive and accept, and to report to the National Council, bequests, donations and grants of property to the University;

	(f) to consider the annual report, annual accounts, and financial estimates of the University, and to submit such report, accounts and estimates to the National Council;

	(g) to make Statutes or Ordinances for any matter required by this Act to be prescribed by any such Statute or Ordinance, or in respect of which any such Statute or Ordinance is required or authorized to be made;

	(h) to make Rules as are not authorized to be made by any other Authority;

	(i) to provide the buildings, premises, furniture and apparatus, and other material necessary for carrying on the University;

	(j) to appoint examiners, whether from the staff of the University or from elsewhere, after consideration of the recommendations of the Senate;

	(k) to advise the Vice-Chancellor of the University on all matters relating to the discipline of students of the University, and the promotion of their general health and welfare;

	(l) to establish, maintain, supervise and control Halls of Residence, and to appoint Wardens thereto;

(m) to enter into, carry out or cancel contracts on behalf of the University, and to invest any moneys belonging to the University, including any unapplied income, in any security in which, under the provisions of section 20 of the Trusts Ordinance or of any other written law, it is lawful to invest trust moneys; or, with the approval of the National Council, to invest any such moneys in the purchase of immovable property in Ceylon or vary such investments, or to place on deposit in any bank approved by that Council any portion of such moneys not required for immediate expenditure;

	(n) to determine by Ordinance, after consultation with the Senate, the dates for the commencement and the termination of the academic year;

	(o) to determine, after consultation with the Senate, the academic dress or insignia or both of the Chancellor, Pro-Chancellor officers, graduates and students of the University;

(p) after consideration of the recommendations of the Senate, to advise the National Council on-

(i) the institution, abolition or suspension of Professorships, Lectureships, and any other posts, whether teaching or otherwise; and

(ii) the qualifications and emoluments of teachers and other officers or employees;

	(q) to exercise all other powers of the University the exercise of which is not otherwise provided for in this Act or any appropriate Instrument:

(3) The Board of Regents of a University may request any Professor or other teacher, or any officer or employee of the University to furnish such Board with such information as it may require in regard to his official duties and functions; and it shall be the duty of such Professor, or other teacher or officer or employee so requested to comply with such request, and to furnish such information.

(4) Any Professor or other teacher, or any officer or other employee, of a University who is dissatisfied with any decision made by the Board of Regents regarding all or any matters relating to his conditions of service may, within one month of such decision being conveyed to him, appeal to the National Council through that Board. The decision of that Council on such appeal shall be final and conclusive.

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