(i) the Director General of the Law School who shall be the Chairman thereof;
(ii) one Judge of the Gauhati High Court, either sitting or retired, nominated by the President;
(Hi) Registrar General of the Gauhati High court ;
(iv) the Registrar of the Law School;
(v) three persons from amongst retired Judges of the High Court or educationists of repute or men of letters or members of the legal professions or eminent public men, who are not in the service of the Law School, nominated by the President;
(vi) all the Heads of the Departments of the Law School;
(vii) all Professors other than the Heads of the Department; and
(viii) two members of the teaching staff, one each respectively representing the associate and assistant professors of the Law School nominated by the Director General of Law School for the term specified;
(ix) a nominee of the Bar Council of India;
(x) a nominee of the Bar Council of Assam ;
(2) The term of the members other than ex-officio members and those whose term is not specified by any of the clauses of sub-section (1) shall be three years:
Provided that the term of the members of the first Academic Council shall be,five years.
14. (1) Subject to the provisions of the Act, Statutes and Regulations and overall supervision of the Executive Council, the Academic Council shall manage the academic affairs and matters of the Law School and in particular shall have the following powers and functions, namely:- 1526 THE ASSAM GAZETTE. EXTRAORDINARY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2009
(i) to report on any matter referred or delegated to it by the General Council or the Executive Council;
(ii) to make recommendations to the Executive Council with regard to the creation, abolition or classification of teaching posts in the Law School and the emoluments payable and the duties attached thereto;
(iii) to formulate and modify or revise schemes for the organisation of the faculties, and to assign to such faculties their respective subjects and also to report to the Executive Council as to the expediency of the abolition or sub-division of any faculty or the combination of one faculty with another;
(iv) to recommend arrangements for the training, instruction and examination of persons other than those enrolled in the Law School;
(v) to promote research within the Law School and to require from time to time, reports on such research;
(vi) to consider proposals submitted by the faculties;
(vii) to suggest policies for admissions to the Law School;
(viii) to recommend, recognize diplomas and degrees of other Law School and institutions and to determine their equivalence in relation to the certificates, diplomas and degrees of the Law School;
(ix) to fix, subject to any conditions accepted by the General Council, the time, mode and conditions of competition for Fellowships, Scholarships and other prizes and to recommend for award the same;
(x) to make recommendations to the Executive Council in regard to the appointment of examiners and if necessary their removal and fixation of their fees, emoluments and travelling and other expenses;
(xi) to recommend arrangements for the conduct of examinations and the dates for holding them;
(xii) to declare or review the result of the various examinations or to appoint committees or officers to do so, and to make recommendations regarding the conferment or grant of degrees, honours, diplomas, licenses, titles and marks of honour;
(xiii) to recommend stipends, scholarships, medals and prizes and to make other awards in accordance with the Regulations and such other conditions as may be attached to the awards;
(xiv) to approve or revise lists of prescribed or recommended text books and to publish the same and syllabus at the prescribed courses of study;
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(xvi) to perform, in relation to academic matters, all such duties and to do all such acts as may be necessary for the proper carrying out of the provisions of this Act and the Regulations made thereunder,
(2) (i) The Academic Council shall meet as often as may be necessary, but not less than two times during an academic year;
(ii) one half of the existing members of the Academic Council shall form the quorum for a meeting of the Academic Council;
(iii) in case of difference of opinion among the members, the opinion of the majority shall prevail;
(iv) each member of the Academic Council, including the Chairman of the Academic Council, have one vote and if there be an equality of votes on any question to be determined by the Academic Council, the Chairman of the Academic Council, or as the case may be, the member presiding over the meetings, shall in addition, have a casting vote;
(v) every meeting of the Academic Council shall be presided over by the Director General of Law School and in his absence by a member chosen in the meeting to preside on the occasion;
(vi) if urgent action by the Academic Council becomes necessary, the Chairman of the Academic Council may permit the business to be transacted by circulation of papers to the members of the Academic Council. The action proposed to be taken shall not be taken unless agreed to, by a majority of the members of the Academic Council. The action so taken shall forthwith be intimated to all the members of the Academic Council. The papers shall be placed before the next meeting of the Academic Council for confirmation.
Finance Committee