(1) The Board of Governance may, from time to time, make new or additional Statutes or may amend or repeal the Statutes in the manner hereinafter provided :
Provided that, the first Statutes shall be made within one year from the appointed date.
(2) The Statute Committee shall be constituted by the Board of Governance as under :-
(a) Vice-Chancellor-Chairperson,
(b) Dean of each School of university,
(c) one Professor of University,
(d) Registrar of the University, as Member-Secretary,
(e) one legal advisor, or counsel appointed by the Board of Governance,
(f) Registrar of any Indian Institute of Technology or any Indian Institute of Information Technology or any Indian Institute of Science and Research or any Indian Institute of Management, nominated by Vice-Chancellor.
(3) The Statute Committee shall prepare and propose draft Statutes concerning the matters referred to in the last preceding section and shall present to the Board of Governance.
(4) Every Statute passed by the Board of Governance shall be submitted to the Chancellor who may give or withhold his assent thereto or send it back to the Board of Governance for reconsideration. The Chancellor may send the draft Statutes to the State Government for its views, if there are implications, financial or otherwise, on the part of the State Government in the implementation of such Statutes.
(5) No Statute passed by the Board of Governance shall be valid or shall come into force until assented to by the Chancellor.
(6) Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing sub-sections, the Chancellor, either suo moto or on the advice of the State Government, may, direct the University to make provisions in the Statutes in respect of any matter specified by him and if the Board of Governance fails to initiate to adopt the direction within thirty days of its receipt, the Chancellor may, after considering the reasons, if any, communicated by the Board of Governance for its inability to comply with such direction, make or amend the Statutes in that respect, suitably.
(7) The Board of Governance may take into consideration the draft of a Statute either of its own motion or on a proposal by the Statutes Committee. In the case of a draft which is not proposed by the Statutes Committee, the Board of Governance, before considering the same, shall obtain the opinion of the Statutes Committee :
Provided that, if the Statutes Committee fails to submit its opinion within three months from the date on which it receives the draft, the Board of Governance may proceed to take the draft into consideration.
(8) The Board of Governance if it thinks necessary may also obtain the opinion of any officer, authority or body of the University in regard to any draft Statute which is before it for consideration :
Provided that, if any such draft Statute pertains to academic matters, the Board of Governance shall obtain the opinion of the Academic Council before considering the same.
(9) The Board of Governance, shall pass the statutes and shall submit to the Chancellor for his assent.