Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (Amendment) Act, 1995*
| [Tamil Nadu Act No. 15 of 1995] | [6th July, 1995] |
An Act further to amend the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University Act, 1971
Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Tamil Nadu in the Forty-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
* Received the assent of the Governor on the 6th July, 1995 and published in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette, Extraordinary.
1. Short title and commencement.- (1) This Act may be called the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (Amendment) Act, 1995.
(2) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification, appoint.
2. Insertion of new section 16-A.- After section 16 of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University Act, 1971 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), the following section shall be inserted, namely:-
"16-A. Vice-Chancellor and other officers, etc., to be public servants.- The Vice-Chancellor, the Registrar, the Comptroller, the Dean, the Director of Research, the Director of Extension Education and other employees of the University shall be deemed, when acting or purporting to act in pursuance of any of the provisions of this Act, to be public servants within the meaning of section 21 of the Indian Penal Code."
3. Amendment of section 18.- In section 18 of the principal Act, in sub-section (2),-
(1) under the heading "Class I-Ex-officio", for clauses (e) and (f), the following clauses shall be substituted, namely:-
"(e) Chief Engineer (Agricultural Engineering);
(f) Director of Horticulture and Plantation Crops;";
(2) under the heading "Class II-Other Members";
(a) in clause (g), the word "and" occurring at the end, shall be omitted;
(b) for clause (h), the following clauses shall be substituted, namely:-
"(h) one member elected by the members of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Tamil Nadu from among themselves:
Provided that no member so elected shall be disqualified for being a member of the Legislative Assembly; and
(i) two members representing agriculture, horticulture, agricultural engineering, agro processing, food processing or agro exports, nominated by the Government."