Section 6, The Njala University College Act, Short title 1964

The Authorities of the College shall be the Council, the The Authorities.Senate, the Boerds, the President, the Principal and such otherbodies and officers as may from time to time be prescribed in the Statutes. 7.(1) There shall be a Council which shall be the governing and The Coucil. executive body of the College with power to exercise all the powers conferred upon the College by this Act and to manage all matters not otherwise provided for by this Act or the Statutes. (2) The Council shall be constituted as set out in Chapter I of the Schedule. (3) The Council may meet at such times and places as it may find convenient but shall meet at least once in each academic term of the College. A 147 (4) Without derogation from the generality of the powers conferred upon the Council by subsection (1) the Council shall have in addition the power (a) to accept the transfer of any movable or immovable property on behalf of the College; A 150 No. 18 Transfer to College of certain Government Institutions. Existing Njala University College 15. (1) All the interests of the Government in the following institutions, that is to say the Rice Rescarch Station at Rokupr; the Oil Palm Rescarch Station at Njala; the Experimental Station of the Division of Agriculture at Njala; and the Government Teacher-Training College at Njala. which immediately before the vesting day were vested in the Govern. ment, shall on the vesting day be transferred to and vest in the College without further assurance and shall be held and applied for the objects for which the College is incorporated. (2) Without derogation from the generality of subsection (1), for the purposes of this section, the interests of Government in the transferred institutions shall include (a) all properties, movable or immovable,of every description; (6) the right to receive and give a good discharge forany grant or contributions which may have been voted or promised to the Government in respect of any of the transferred institutions by any person or body. (3) The land deemed to have been transferred to and vesting in the College on the vesting day under the provision of this section shall be as described and set out in a Public Notice to be published by the Minister of Natural Resources in the Gazette on or before the vesting day or as soon as may be thereafter. 16. (1) All deeds, bonds, agreements, instruments, debts. contracls credits and working arrangements, subsisting immediately before and pend ing proceedings. the vesting day, affecting any of the transferred institutions shall be of as full force and effect against or in favour of the College, and as enforceable as fully and effectually as if, instead of the Government or any person acting on behalf of the Government, the College had been named therein or had been a party thereto: Provided th¡t this subsection shall not apply to any contract agreement or other arrangement relating to the service or employ ment of any public officer or employee of the Government and the College shall be under no obligation or liability with respect to an) such ofiicer or employee serving or employed at any of the trans ferred institutions prior to the vesting day. (2) Any proceeding or cause of action pending or existing immediately before the vesting day by or against the Governmet in respect of any of the tr¡nsferred institutions may be continued or enforced by or against the Government as if this Act had not been enacted. No. 18 Njala University College PART VI-MisCELLANEOUS 17. () The College may appcar in any legal proceedings by Appearance of College an oficer of the College authorised generally or in respect of any in logal icular proceedings by resolution of the Council;and any ofhcer, proceodings. authorised, shall be at liberty to institute and carry on any nroccedings which the Council is authorised to institute and carry on under this or any other Act, subjcct always to any directions which may be given to him by the Council. (2) Service on the College of all legal processes and notices shall be cffected by service on the Principal of the College. 18. Membership of the College shall be open to persons of Member cither sex and no discrimination shall be made or test imposed on ship of the College. the grounds of religious belief, political views, racial or tribal origin. The Constitution of the Concil of the College (section 7)