35. Acts and proceedings not to be invalidated by vacancies.—No act of the Institute or the
General Council or Board or Senate or any other body set up under this Act or the Statutes, shall be
invalid merely by reasons of—
(a) any vacancy in, or defect in the constitution thereof, or
(b) any defect in the election, nomination or appointment of a person acting as a member thereof,
or
(c) any irregularity in its procedure not affecting the merits of the case.
36. Grant of degrees, etc., by Institute.—Notwithstanding anything contained in the University
Grants Commission Act, 1956 (3 of 1956), or in any other law for the time being in force, the Institute
shall have power to grant degrees and other academic distinctions and titles under this Act.
37. Sponsored schemes.—Notwithstanding anything in this Act, whenever the Institute receives
funds from any Government, the University Grants Commission or any other agency including industry
sponsoring a research scheme, a consultancy assignment, a teaching programme or a chaired
professorship or a scholarship, to be executed or endowed at the Institute,—
(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; and
(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 25.
38. 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.
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39. 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; and
(b) until the first Statutes and the Ordinances are made under this Act, the Statutes and the
Ordinances of the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology Society, or notification as in force,
immediately before the commencement of this Act, shall continue to apply to the Institute in so far as
they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act.
40. Statutes, Ordinances and notifications to be published in the Official Gazette and to be laid
before Parliament.—(1) Every Statute and every Ordinance made or notification issued under this Act
shall be published in the Official Gazette.
(2) Every Statute and every Ordinance made or notification issued under this Act shall be laid, as
soon as may be after it is made, before each House of Parliament, while it is in session, for a total period
of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if,
before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid,
both Houses agree in making any modification in the Statute, Ordinance or notification or both Houses
agree that the Statute, Ordinance or notification should not be made or issued, the Statute, Ordinance or
notification shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be;
so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of
anything previously done under that Statute, Ordinance or notification.
(3) The power to make the Statutes, Ordinances or notification shall include the power to give
retrospective effect from a date not earlier than the date of commencement of this Act, to the Statutes,
Ordinances, notifications or any of them but no retrospective effect shall be given to any Statute,
Ordinance or notification so as to prejudicially affect the interests of any person to whom such Statute,
Ordinance or notification may be applicable.
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