The Indian Institutes of Information Technology Act, 2014

(1) This Act may be called the Indian Institutes of InformationTechnology Act, 2014. (2) It shall come into force on such date1as the Central Government may, by notification in theOfficial Gazette, appoint.

Whereas the objectsof the Institutes mentioned in the Schedule are such as to make them institutions of national importance, itis hereby declared that each such Institute is an institution of national importance.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, (a) "Board", in relation to any Institute, means the Board of Governors referred to insub-section (1) of section 13; (b) "Chairperson" means the Chairperson of the Board of Governors appointed undersub-section (2) of section 13; (c) "Council" means the Council established under sub-section (1) of section 40; (d) "Director" means the Director of the Institute; (e) "existing Institute" means the institute mentioned in column (3) of the Schedule; (f) "Institute" means any of the institutions mentioned in column (5) of the Schedule; (g) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (h) "Schedule" means the Schedule to this Act; (i) "Senate", in relation to any Institute, means the Senate thereof; (j) "Statutes" and "Ordinances", in relation to any Institute, means the Statutes and Ordinances ofthe Institute made under this Act.

(1) On and from the commencement of this Act, every existingInstitute, shall be a body corporate by the same name as mentioned in column (5) of the Schedule. (2) Every existing Institute referred to in column (5) of the Schedule shall have perpetual successionand a common seal, with power, subject to the provisions of this Act, to acquire, hold and dispose ofproperty, both movable and immovable, and to contract, and shall, by the said name, sue or be sued.

On and from the commencement of this Act, (a) any reference to a Society in any contract or other instrument shall be deemed as a referenceto the corresponding Institute mentioned in column (5) of the Schedule; (b) all properties, movable and immovable, of or belonging to every existing Institute shall vest inthe corresponding Institute mentioned under column (5) of the Schedule; (c) all rights and debts and other liabilities of every existing Institute mentioned in column (3) ofthe Schedule shall be transferred to, and be the rights and liabilities of, the corresponding Institutementioned in column (5) of the Schedule; (d) every person employed by every existing Institute mentioned in column (3) of the Schedule,immediately before such commencement shall hold his office or service in the corresponding Institutementioned in column (5) of the Schedule, with the same tenure, at the same remuneration and uponthe same terms and conditions and with the same rights and privileges as to pension, leave, gratuity,provident fund and other matters as he would have held the same if this Act had not been enacted andshall continue to do so unless and until his employment is terminated or until such tenure,remuneration and terms and conditions are duly altered by the Statutes: Provided that if the alteration so made is not acceptable to such employee, his employment maybe terminated by the Institute in accordance with the terms of the contract with the employee or, if noprovision is made therein in this behalf, on payment, to him by the Institute, of compensationequivalent to three months' remuneration in case of permanent employees and one month'sremuneration in the case of other employees: Provided further that any reference, by whatever form of words, to the Director, Registrar andother officers of an existing Institute mentioned in column (3) of the Schedule, in any law for the timebeing in force, or in any instrument or other document, shall be construed as a reference to theDirector, Registrar and other officers of the corresponding Institute mentioned in column (5) of theSchedule; (e) every person pursuing, before the commencement of this Act, any academic or researchcourse in every existing Institute mentioned in column (3) of the Schedule, shall be deemed to havemigrated and registered with the corresponding Institute mentioned in column (5) of the Schedule, onsuch commencement at the same level of course in the Institute from which such person migrated; (f) all suits and other legal proceedings instituted or which could have been instituted by oragainst an existing Institute, mentioned in column (3) of the Schedule, immediately before thecommencement of this Act shall be continued or instituted by or against the corresponding Institutementioned in column (5) of the Schedule.