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THE
(Pb Ord XLIX of 2002)
C O N T E N T S
Section
1.
Short title and commencement.
2.
Definitions
3.
Incorporation
4.
Powers of the University
5.
Jurisdiction of the University
6.
University to be open to all classes, creeds, etc.
7.
Teaching in the University
8.
Officers of the University
9.
Chancellor
10.
Revisional powers of the
Chancellor
11.
Visitation
11-A. Pro-Chancellor
12.
Vice-Chancellor
13.
Powers and duties of the Vice-Chancellor
14.
Registrar
15.
Treasurer
16.
Controller of Examinations
17.
Resident Auditor
18.
Other officers
19.
Authorities of the University
20.
The Syndicate
21.
Powers and duties of the Syndicate
22.
Academic Council
23.
Powers and duties of the Academic Council
24.
Constitution, functions and powers of other
Authorities
25.
Appointment of Committees by Authorities
26.
Statutes
27.
Regulations
28.
Rules
29.
Affiliation of educational institutions
30.
Extension of affiliation
31.
Inspection and reports
32.
Disaffiliation
33.
University Fund
34.
Audit and accounts
35.
Recovery of University dues
36.
37.
Functions of
38.
Committee of Control
39.
Retirement from service
40.
Pension, insurance, gratuity, provident fund and
benevolent fund
41.
42.
Appeal and Review
43.
Commencement of term of office of members of
Authorities
44.
Filling of causual
vacancies in Authorities
45.
Filling of vacancies in authorities in certain
circumstances
46.
Disputes about Membership of Authority
47.
Tripartite mobility
48.
Proceedings of Authorities not invalidated by
vacancies
49.
Indemnity
50.
Savings
51.
First Statutes
52.
Transitory Provisions
53.
Removal of difficulties
54.
Repeal
SCHEDULE
THE FIRST STATUTES
(SEE SECTION 51)
1.
Faculties
2.
Dean
3.
Teaching Departments/Institutes and
Chairpersons/Directors
4.
Board of Studies
5.
Advanced Studies and Research Board
6.
Selection Board
7.
Functions of the Selection Board
8.
Finance and Planning Committee
9.
Functions of Finance and Planning Committee
10.
Affiliation Committee
11.
Functions of the Affiliation Committee
12.
Discipline Committee
13.
Functions of the Discipline Committee
[1]THE
(Pb Ord XLIX of 2002)
[
An Ordinance to provide for the
establishment of the
Preamble.–
Whereas it is expedient to establish
the
And whereas the Provincial Assembly of the
And whereas under Article 4 of the Provisional Constitution
(Amendment) Order No.9 of 1999, as amended by the Chief Executive Order No.11
of
2000, the Governor of a Province may issue and promulgate an Ordinance;
Now, therefore, in exercise of the aforesaid powers and all other
powers enabling him in that behalf, the Governor of the Punjab is pleased to
make and promulgate the following Ordinance:-
1. Short title and
commencement.– (1) This Ordinance may be called the
(2) It shall come into force at once.
2. Definitions.– In this Ordinance, unless the
subject or context otherwise requires, the following expressions shall have the
meanings hereby respectively
assigned to them, that is to say –
(a) “Academic Council” means the Academic Council
of the University;
(b) “affiliated college” means an educational
institution affiliated to the University but not maintained or administered by
it;
(c) “Academic Department” means a teaching,
research and technological development Department maintained and administered
by the University;
(d) “Authority” means any of the Authorities of
the University specified in the Ordinance;
(e) “Chairperson” means head of an Academic
Department;
(f) “Chancellor” means the Chancellor of the
University;
(g) “College” means a
(h) “Dean” means the Chairperson of the Board of
Faculty;
(i) “Director” means
the Director of an Institute;
(j) “Faculty” means a faculty of the University;
(k) “Government” means the Government of the
(l) “Institute” means a teaching unit of the
University;
(m) “officer” means an officer of the University
specified in the Ordinance;
(n) “prescribed” means prescribed by Statutes,
Regulations or Rules;
(o) “Principal” means the head of a college;
[2] [(o-a) ‘Pro-Chancellor’ means the Pro-Chancellor of
the University;]
(p) “Professor Emeritus” means a retired
Professor working in an honorary capacity;
(q) “Statutes”, “Regulations” and “Rules” mean
respectively the Statutes, the Regulations and the Rules made or deemed to have
been
made under this Ordinance;
(r) “Syndicate” means the Syndicate of the
University;
(s) “teachers” mean Professors, Associate
Professors, Assistant Professors, Lecturers and Research staff having
prescribed qualifications
engaged whole time by the University for teaching
certificate, diploma, degree or postgraduate classes and engaged in research
and development of technologies and such other persons as may be declared as
teachers by Regulations;
(t) “Teaching Unit” means a constituent or
affiliated college, institute, department or such other unit where instruction
for research
is being undertaken;
(u) “University” means the
(v) “
(w) “Vice Chancellor” means the Vice Chancellor
of the University.
3. Incorporation.– (1) The
(2) The
University shall have its main campus at
(3) The
University may open and administer new campuses and institutes.
(4) The University shall consist of the Chancellor,
the Vice Chancellor, members of the Syndicate and the Academic Council,
officers,
teachers and Authorities.
(5) The University shall be a body corporate and
shall have a perpetual succession and a common seal and may, by the aforesaid
name,
sue and be sued.
(6) The University shall be competent to acquire
and hold property, both movable and immovable, and to lease, sell or otherwise
transfer
any property vested in it or enter into contract for purposes of this
Ordinance.
(7) All
properties, owned or possessed and all rights and all interests held or enjoyed
by, and all liabilities subsisting against the
(8) All
employees, regular or on contract basis, serving the College, immediately
before coming into force of this Ordinance, shall
stand transferred to the
University except those who are working in the College on deputation with or
without deputation allowance;
provided that they shall remain on deputation
with or without deputation allowance, as the case may be, and shall be liable
to
be transferred to their parent Department at any time.
4. Powers
of the University.– The
University shall have the powers to –
(a) provide for instruction in such branches of
learning as it may deem fit, and to make provisions for teaching, training,
research,
demonstration and development of technologies in the fields of Arts,
Sciences and applied disciplines at the undergraduate, graduate
and
post-graduate levels and for the advancements and dissemination of knowledge in
such manner and by such means as the University
may determine;
(b) frame and prescribe courses of studies to be
taught by it, and the institutes, affiliated and University colleges;
(c) prescribe criteria of admission, migration
and examination of students and to admit and examine students;
(d) establish sub Campuses of the University;
(e) hold examinations and to award and confer
degrees, diplomas, certificates and other academic distinctions on persons who
have, under
the prescribed conditions, been admitted to and have passed its
examinations;
(f) accept the examinations passed and periods of
study spent by the students of the University at other Universities and places
of
learning, as equivalent to such examination and period of study in the
University as the University may determine, and to withdraw
such acceptances at
any time;
(g) confer degrees on persons who have carried on
independent research under prescribed conditions;
(h) confer, in the prescribed manner, honorary
degrees or other academic distinctions on such persons as the Chancellor may
approve
on the recommendation of the Syndicate;
(i) collaborate with
other universities, research and educational institutions and commercial or
industrial organizations, in the public
or private sectors or other public
authorities in such manner and for such purposes as it may determine;
(j) make provision for teaching, research,
consultancy and advisory services and with these objects to enter into such
arrangements
with other institutions or organizations or with public bodies as
the University may consider desirable;
(k) recognize as teachers such persons as it may
deem fit;
(l) institute such offices whether academic or
not as may be required by the University, and to appoint persons to and to
remove them
from such offices, and to prescribe their conditions of service;
(m) create posts in connection with teaching,
research, development of technology, administration, and for any other purpose
related
thereto and to select, appoint and promote academic and administrative
staff;
(n) institute and award fellowships,
scholarships, medals, bursaries and prizes in the prescribed manner;
(o) institute Professorships, Associate
Professorships, Assistant Professorships and Lectureships and any other post
and to appoint
persons thereto;
(p) establish institutes, colleges, departments,
faculties, centres of advanced studies, laboratories
workshops, hospitals, farms, institutions, museums and other centres of learning for the development of teaching,
research and technological development and make such arrangements for their
maintenance,
management and administration, as it may determine;
(q) establish, control and maintain University
halls of residence for students and approve any place as hostel or lodging for
students;
(r) supervise and control the discipline of
students of the University and promote co-curricular and recreational
activities of such
students and make arrangements for promoting their health
and general welfare;
(s) take disciplinary action against, and impose
penalty on students, in the prescribed manner;
(t) charge and receive such fees and other
payments as it may determine;
(u) enter into, carry out, vary or cancel
contracts;
(v) receive and manage property (acquired or
transferred), grants, bequests, trusts, gifts, donations, endowments and other
contributions,
made to the University, and to invest any fund representing such
property, grants, bequests, trusts, gifts, donations, endowments
or contributions,
and to convert one kind of property into another in such manner as it may deem
fit;
(w) provide for the printing, recording,
broadcasting, publication and distribution of teaching material, research
reports, papers and
other works which may be issued by the University;
(x) affiliate or disaffiliate colleges and other
educational institutions in the prescribed manner;
(y) admit colleges and other educational
institutions to its privileges or withdraw such privileges from them in the
prescribed manner;
(z) inspect colleges, affiliated or seeking
affiliation;
(aa) affiliate or
associate itself with Examination Bodies and other institutions within
(bb) provide for teaching specified courses of
training for persons not being the students of the University and grant
certificates and
diploma to such persons;
(cc) do such other acts or things, whether or not
incidental to the powers aforesaid, as may be necessary to further the
objectives of
the University as a place of education, learning, research and
technical development.
5. Jurisdiction of the University.– The University shall have jurisdiction within the
limits of the Province of the
6. University to be open to all classes, creeds,
etc.– The University shall be open to
all persons irrespective of their religion, race, creed, class or colour and no person shall be denied the privileges of the
University on any such ground.
7. Teaching in the University.– (1) All recognized teaching in various courses in the
University and affiliated colleges shall be conducted in the prescribed manner,
and it may include lectures, tutorials, discussions, seminars, demonstrations
as well as practical work in laboratories and workshops
and other methods of
instruction.
(2) The teaching in any prescribed course in the
University or affiliated colleges shall be organized by such Authority as may
be prescribed.
(3) The courses and the curricula for teaching in
the University and affiliated colleges shall be such as may be prescribed.
(4) A discipline to be called Islamic and Pakistan
Studies shall be offered, as a compulsory subject at the Bachelor’s level, in
the
University and affiliated colleges provided that non Muslim students may
opt for Ethics and Pakistan Studies.
(5) The degree, diploma or certificate at the
University shall only be granted to a student after fulfilling the prescribed
requirements
for the said degree, diploma or certificate.
(6) A continuous evaluation shall be built into
the system of studies.
8. Officers
of the University.– The following
shall be the officers of the University:-
(a) the Chancellor;
(b) the Vice-Chancellor;
(c) the Deans;
(d) the Associate Deans;
(e) the Directors of Institutes;
(f) the
(g) the Chairmen of Academic Departments;
(h) the Registrar;
(i) the Treasurer;
(j) the Controller of Examinations;
(k) the Librarian; and
(l) such other persons as may be prescribed to be
officers.
9. Chancellor.– (1) The Governor of the
(2) The Chancellor or his nominee shall preside at
the convocation of the University.
(3) If the Chancellor is satisfied that the
proceedings of any Authority or the orders of any officer are not in accordance
with the
provisions of this Ordinance, the Statutes, the Regulations or the
Rules, he may, after calling upon such Authority or officer to
show cause why
such proceedings or orders should not be annulled, by order in writing, annul
such proceedings or orders.
(4) Every proposal to confer an honorary degree
shall be subject to confirmation by the Chancellor.
(5) The Chancellor shall have the power to assent
to such statutes as are required to be submitted to him by the University or
withhold
assent or refer them back to the University for reconsideration.
(6) The Chancellor may remove any person from the
membership of any Authority if such person –
(i) has become of unsound mind; or
(ii) has become subject to any incapacity which prevents him from
functioning as member of such Authority; or
(iii) has been convicted by a court of law of an offence involving moral
turpitude; or
(iv) does not attend three consecutive meetings of the Authority,
without intimation to the Vice-chancellor; or
(v) remains absent from the country for more than six months without
intimation to the Vice-Chancellor:
Provided
that no order under this sub section shall be passed unless the person to be
affected thereby is afforded an opportunity
of being heard.
[3][(7) In the
performance of his functions under this Ordinance, the Chancellor shall act and
be bound in the same manner as the Governor
of a Province acts and is bound
under Article 105 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.]
10. Revisional Powers of the
Chancellor.- The Chancellor may, of his own motion or otherwise, call for and
examine the record of any proceedings in which an order has been
passed by any
authority for the purpose of satisfying himself as to the correctness, legality
or propriety of any finding or order
and may pass such order as he may deem
fit.
11. Visitation.– (1) The Chancellor may cause an inspection or inquiry to be
made in respect of any matter directly or indirectly connected with the
affairs
of the University and shall, from time to time, appoint one or more persons to
conduct inspection of –
(i) the University, its buildings, laboratories,
libraries, museums, workshops and equipment;
(ii) any institution, college or hostel maintained,
recognized or licensed by the University;
(iii) the teaching and other work conducted by the
University; and
(iv) the conduct of examinations held by the
University.
(2) The Chancellor shall in every such case give
notice to the Syndicate of his intention to cause an inspection or inquiry to
be made,
and the Syndicate shall be entitled to be represented thereat.
(3) After
the inspection or inquiry is completed, the Chancellor shall cause his views as
a result thereof to be communicated to the
Syndicate, and after ascertaining
the views of the Syndicate, the Chancellor may advise the Syndicate to refrain
from taking an
action or to take such action, and within such time, as he may
specify in this behalf.
(4) Where the Syndicate fails to carry out the
advice of the Chancellor given under sub-section (3), the Chancellor may, after
considering
the explanation or representation, if any, made by the Syndicate,
issue such directions as he may deem fit, and the Vice-Chancellor
shall comply
with such directions.
[4][11-A. Pro-Chancellor.– (1) The Minister for Education, Government of the
(2) He
shall perform such duties and functions and exercise such powers as may be
assigned and delegated to him by the Chancellor.]
12. Vice-Chancellor.– (1) The Vice-Chancellor shall be
appointed by the Chancellor on such terms and conditions as the Chancellor may
determine, and shall
hold office during the pleasure of the Chancellor for a
term not exceeding four years.
(2) At
any time when the office of Vice-Chancellor is vacant, or he is absent or is
unable to perform the functions of the office due
to illness or some other
cause, the Chancellor shall make such arrangements for the performance of the
duties of the Vice-Chancellor
as he may deem fit.
13. Powers and duties of the Vice-Chancellor.– (1) The Vice-Chancellor shall be the
principal executive and academic officer of the University and shall ensure
that the provisions
of this Ordinance, the Statutes, the Regulations and the
Rules are faithfully observed in order to promote the general efficiency
and
good order of the University and shall have all powers necessary for this
purpose, including administrative control over all
officers, teachers, students
and employees of the University.
(2) The Vice Chancellor shall, in the absence of
the Chancellor, preside at a convocation of the University and shall, if
present, preside
at the meetings of the Authorities or other bodies of the
University, colleges and institutes of which the Vice Chancellor may or
may not
be the head.
(3) The Vice Chancellor may take such actions in
an emergency as may be considered necessary by him and report thereafter as
soon as
possible, the action so taken to the officer, Authority or other body
which in the ordinary course would have taken that action.
(4) The Vice Chancellor shall also have the powers
to –
(i) create and fill temporary posts for a period
not exceeding six months;
(ii) sanction all expenditures provided for in the approved budget and
to re-appropriate funds within the same major head of expenditure;