5Effect of establishment of University

On and from the date of commencement of this Act,--

(a) any reference to the University of Nalanda in any contract or other instrument shall be deemed as a reference to the University;

(b) all property, movable and immovable, of or belonging to the University of Nalanda shall vest in the University;

(c) all rights and liabilities of the University of Nalanda shall be transferred to, and be the rights and liabilities of, the University;

(d) every person employed by the University of Nalanda immediately before the commencement of this Act shall hold his office or service in the University by the same tenure, at the same remuneration and upon the 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, and shall 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 may be terminated by the University in accordance with the term of the contract with the employee or, if no provision is made therein in this behalf, on payment to him by the University of compensation equivalent to three months' remuneration in case of permanent employees and one months remuneration in the case of other employees:

Provided further that every person employed before the commencement of this Act, pending the execution of a contract under section 33, shall be deemed to have been appointed in accordance with the provisions of a contract consistent with the provisions of this Act and the Statutes:

Provided also that any reference, by whatever form of words, to the Visitor, Chancellor or Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nalanda in any law for the time being in force, or in any instrument or other document, shall be construed as a reference respectively to the Visitor, Chancellor or Vice-Chancellor of the University;

(e) the Visitor of the University of Nalanda, appointed under the provisions of the University of Nalanda Act, 2007 (Bihar Act 18 of 2007) shall be deemed to have been appointed to be the nominee of the Visitor and such nominee be also the first Visitor under this Act for a period of five years from the date of commencement of this Act;

(f) the Chancellor of the University of Nalanda, appointed under the provisions of the University of Nalanda Act, 2007 (Bihar Act 18 of 2007) shall be deemed to have been appointed as the Chancellor under section 14 of this Act, and shall hold office for a period of three years from the date of commencement of this Act;

(g) the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nalanda, appointed under the provisions of the University of Nalanda Act, 2007 (Bihar Act 18 of 2007) shall be deemed to have been appointed as the first Vice-Chancellor under this Act, and shall hold office for a period of five years from the date of commencement of this Act; and

(h) all Colleges, Institutions, Faculties and Departments affiliated to, or admitted to the privileges of, or maintained by, the University of Nalanda shall stand affiliated to, or admitted to the privilege of, or maintained by, the University.