31. Acts and proceedings not to be invalidated by vacancies.—1
[No act of the Council or any
Institute] or Board or Senate or any other body set up under this Act or the Statutes, shall be invalid
merely by reason of—
(a) any vacancy in, or defect in, the constitution thereof, or
(b) any defect in the election, nomination or appointment of person acting as a member thereof, or
(c) any irregularity in its procedure not affecting the merits of the case.
1. Subs. by Act 43 of 2021, s. 30, for “No act of the Institute” (w.e.f. 25-5-2022).
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32. Grant of degrees, etc., by 1
[Institutes].—Notwithstanding anything contained in the University
Grants Commission Act, 1956 (3 of 1956) or in any other law for the time being in force, 2
[every
Institute] shall have power to grant degrees and other academic distinctions and titles under this Act.
33. Sponsored schemes.—3
[Whenever an Institute] receives funds from any Government, the
University Grants Commission or any other agency sponsoring a scheme to be executed by the Institute,
notwithstanding anything in this Act,—
(a) the amount received shall be kept by the Institute separately from the Fund of the Institute and
utilised only for the purpose of the scheme;
(b) the staff required to execute the same shall be recruited in accordance with the terms and
conditions stipulated by the sponsoring organisation:
Provided that any money remaining unutilised under clause (a) shall be transferred to the endowment
fund created under section 22 of this Act.
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[33A. Power of Central Government to issue directions.— The Institute shall carry out such
directions as may be issued to it from time to time by the Central Government for the efficient
administration of this Act.]
34. Power to remove difficulties.—(1) If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of
this Act, the Central Government may, by order published in the Official Gazette, make such provisions
or give such directions not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, as appears to it to be necessary or
expedient for removing the difficulty:
Provided that no such order shall be made after the expiry of two years from the appointed day.
(2) Every order made under this section shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each
House of Parliament.
35. Transitional provisions.—Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act,—
(a) the Board of Governors of the Society functioning as such immediately before the
commencement of this Act shall continue to so function until a new Board is constituted for the
Institute under this Act, but on the constitution of a new Board under this Act, the members of the
Board holding office before such constitution shall cease to hold office;
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[(b) Until the first statutes and the Ordinances in relation to the institutes mentioned in column
(3) of the Schedule are made under this Act, the Statues and the Ordinances of the National Institute
of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Sector-67, S.A.S. Nagar (Mohali), District Ropar, Punjab
as in force, shall apply to those Institutes with the necessary modifications and adaptations in so far as
they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act.]