81. Subject to the provisions of this Act and of any appropriate Instrument, the following provisions shall apply as from the date on which an old University and the Secretariat of the National Council of Higher Education become a section of the University-
| (1) All teachers, officers and servants in the service of an old University and the Secretariat of the National Council of Higher Education on the day immediately prior to that date who have not on that day completed their sixty-fifth year of age shall be deemed to be teachers, officers and servants in the service of the University, and shall hold their offices with as nearly as may be the same status and on the same terms, including terms relating to salary or wages, the termination of employment, allowances or other benefits as they had or enjoyed in the service of the old University and the Secretariat of the National Council of Higher Education: |
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| (2) All debts, obligations and liabilities incurred and all contracts, deeds, bonds, agreements and other instruments executed or entered into, and all matters and things engaged to be done by, with or for an old University or the National Council of Higher Education prior to that date shall be deemed to have been incurred, executed, entered into or engaged to be done by, with or for the University, subject to the provisions of paragraph (1) of this section. |
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| (3) All suits, prosecutions, appeals or other legal proceedings, civil and criminal, instituted or which might have been instituted, by or against the old University or the National Council of Higher Education prior to that date may, subject to the provisions of this Act and of any other written law, be continued or instituted by or against the University. |
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| (4) All decrees or orders made by a competent Court in favour of, or against, an old University or the National Council of Higher Education prior to that date shall be deemed to have been made in favour of, or against, the University. |
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| (5) The University Provident Funds in respect of the old Universities and the Provident Fund of the National Council of Higher Education established under the Higher Education Act, No. 20 of 1966, shall be deemed to be the provident fund of the University established under this Act. |
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| (6) All property, movable or immovable, which has been vested in, or legally purchased or acquired by, or leased to, or placed at the disposal of, or in any other manner transferred to an old University or the National Council of Higher Education, or is in their possession or control at that date shall be held by or in trust, for the University, subject to the trusts, charges, liabilities, reservations, servitudes or other encumbrances and on the terms and conditions appertaining, attaching or applicable thereto at that date. |
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| (7) All statutes, ordinances and rules made by the Authorities of the old Universities and the National Council of Higher Education shall be deemed to be statutes, ordinances and rules made by the University. |
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| (8) The Fund of the National Council of Higher Education and the University Funds of the old Universities established under sections 21 and 72 respectively, of the Higher Education Act, No. 20 of 1966, shall be deemed to be the University Fund of the University. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts