Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi Act, 1992 › 2

2 — Second Schedule

[Section 10 (2).]

TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AS TO PROPERTY AND FUNCTIONS, ETC.

  1. Transfer of property to University

Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) of section 10 of this Act—

(a) the reference in that subsection to property held by the Provisional Council shall include a reference to the right to receive and give a good discharge for any grants or contributions which may have been voted or promised to the Provisional Council;

(b) all debts and liabilities of the Provisional Council outstanding shall become debts or liabilities of the University.

  1. Agreements, Contracts, Deeds and Documents

(1) All agreements, contracts, deeds and other instruments to which the Provisional Council was a party shall so far as possible and subject to any necessary modifications, have effect as if the University had been a party thereto in place of the Provisional Council.

(2) Documents not falling within sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph, including enactments, which refer, whether specially or generally, to the Provisional Council shall be construed in accordance with that sub-paragraph so far as applicable.

(3) Any legal proceedings or application to any authority pending by or against the Provisional Council may be continued by or against the University.

  1. Registration of transfers

(1) If the law in force at the place where any property transferred by this Act is situate provides for the registration or transfer of property of the kind in question (whether by reference to an instrument of transfer or otherwise), the law shall, so far as it provides for alterations of a register (but not for avoidance of transfers, the payment of fees or any other matter) apply with the necessary modifications to the property aforesaid.

(2) It shall be the duty of the body to which any property is transferred by this Act to furnish the necessary particulars of the transfer to the proper officer of the registration authority, and of that officer to register the transfer accordingly.

  1. Transfers of functions, etc.

(1) The first meeting of the Council shall be convened by the Pro-Chancellor on such date and in such manner as he may determine.

(2) The persons who were members of the Provisional Council shall be deemed to constitute the Council until the date which the Council, as set up under the Third Schedule to this Act, shall have been duly constituted.

(3) The first meeting of the Senate, as constituted by this Act, shall be convened by the Vice-Chancellor on such date and in such manner as he may determine.

(4) The persons who were members of the Senate immediately before the coming into force of this Act shall be deemed to constitute the Senate of the University until the date when the Senate of the University, as set up under the Third Schedule to this Act, shall have been duly constituted.

(5) Subject to any Regulations which may be made by the Senate after the date on which this Act is made, the schools, school boards and students of the University immediately before the coming into force of this Act shall on that day become schools, school boards and students of the University as constituted by this Act.

(6) Persons who were deans or associate deans of schools or members of school boards shall continue to be deans or associate deans or become members of the corresponding school boards, until new appointments are made in pursuance of the Statutes.

  1. Any person who was a member of the staff of the University as established or was otherwise employed by the Provisional Council shall become the holder of an appointment at the University with the status, designation and functions which correspond as nearly as may be to those which appertained to him as a member of that staff or as such an employee.
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