(1) When any vacancy occurs in the office of a member, other than an ex-officio member or, a member nominated by the Chancellor, of any authority or other body of the University except Governing Council before the expiry of his normal term, the vacancy shall be filled by nomination of a person by the Standing Committee constituted under sub-section (3).
(2) In case, any vacancy occurs in the office of a member, other than an ex-officio member of the Governing Council of the University, it shall be filled as soon as possible, by nomination or election or co-option, as the case may be, of resignation of membership. The person so nominated, or co-opted shall be a person who is otherwise eligible to be nominated, or co-opted on the said authority or body from the same category. The person so nominated or co-opted shall hold office only so long as the member in whose place he has been nominated or co-opted shall have held it, if the vacancy had not occurred.
(3) The constitution of the Standing Committee for filling in the vacancies mentioned in sub-section (1) shall be as follows, namely :-
(a) Vice-Chancellor-Chairman ;
(b) Chancellors nominee on Governing Council ;
(c) one Head of Skill Department nominated by the Governing Council;
(d) one member of the Governing Council nominated by Governing Council ;
(e) one member nominated by Academic Council from amongst its members;
(f) Registrar-Member-Secretary.
(4) The term of the Standing Committee shall commence on the 1st September and shall be of five years from the said date. The term of the members shall expire on the expiry of the said period of five years, irrespective of the date on which a member has entered upon his office.