(1) Save as otherwise provided in this Act, the powers of the University conferred by or under this Act shall not extend beyond the limits of any district referred to in clause (c) of section 2.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, with effect from such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint in this behalf (hereafter in this section referred to as the appointed day),—
(a) such colleges existing on the appointed day within the limits of the districts referred to in clause (c) of section 2 as may be specified in the notification shall—
(1) be deemed to be affiliated to the University and continue to be so affiliated until the University otherwise directs; and
(ii) cease to be affiliated to the University of Calcutta to which they may have been affiliated before the appointed day;
(b) any Teacher, Principal or member of the Governing Body of any such college holding, by virtue of his being such Teacher, Principal or member, any office in or under the University of Calcutta or any of the authorities of the said University shall cease to hold such office and the vacancy so caused shall be deemed to be a casual vacancy for the purposes of the Calcutta University Act, 1951 :
Provided that nothing in this Act shall affect— (?) the powers exercised by the Visva Bharati at Santiniketan in the district of Birbhum under the Visva Bharati Act. 1951: and
(ii) the special privileges enjoyed by the Serampore College at Serampore in the district of Hooghly under the Serampore College Act, 1918 or • otherwise.
West Ben.
Act XVIII of 1951.
29 of 1951.
Ben. Act IV of 1918.
The Burdwan University Act, 1959. 5 XXIX of 1959.]
(Chapter 11.—The University.-7Sections 6-8.)