4Effect of establishment of the University

On and from the date of commencement of this Act,

(a) any reference to the Tripura University 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 Tripura University shall vest in the University;

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

(d) every person employed by the Tripura University 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 month's 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 36, 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 Vice-Chancellor and ProVice-Chancellor of the Tripura University 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 Vice-Chancellor and the ProVice-Chancellor of the University;

(e) the Vice-Chancellor of the Tripura University, appointed under the provisions of the Tripura University Act, 1987 (Tripura Act 11 of 1987) shall be deemed to have been appointed as the ViceChancellor under this Act, and shall hold office for a period of three months or till such time the first Vice-Chancellor is appointed under section 47 of the Act, whichever is earlier; and

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