State Act

THE TAMIL NADU VETERINARY AND ANIMAL SCIENCES UNIVERSITY ACT 1989

43(1) Every person who, immediately before the appointed day, is serving in the colleges and institutions of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University specified in Part I of the schedule shall, as from the said day, become an employee of the University and shall cease to be an employee of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University. (1-A) “Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), every employee of the University other than those who are qualified in the field of Veterinary and Animal Sciences who, immediately before the appointed day, was serving in the Colleges and Institutions of the TAMIL NADU AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY specified in part I of the Schedule shall, within one month from the date of commencement of the Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (Amendment) Act, 2002, exercise his option to serve in the University or for allotment from such date, whether prospectively or retrospectively, as may be specified by him, to the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University and the option once exercised shall be final: Provided that any option exercised by any employee referred to in this sub-section, immediately before the date of commencement of the Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (Amendment) Act, 2002, shall be deemed to have been exercised by such employee under this sub-section. (1-B) After expiry of the period of one month specified in sub-section (1-A), the Government may, by order, direct whether prospectively or retrospectively, that the employees of the University specified in such order shall stand allotted to serve in the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, with effect on and from such date, at such remuneration and upon such rights and privileges as to pension, gratuity and other matters, as may be specified in such order”. (2)(a) As soon as may be, after the appointed day, the Government may, after consulting the Vice-Chancellors of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University and the Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, direct, by general or special order, that : (i) such of the employees of the Government who immediately before the appointed day were serving in the institutions specified in Part II of the Schedule; and (ii) such of the employees of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, as are specified in such order shall stand allotted to serve in connection with the affairs of the Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University with effect on and from such date as may be specified in such order; Provided that no such order shall be issued in respect of any such employee without his consent for such allotment. (b) With effect on and from the date specified in the order under clause (a), the persons specified in such order shall become employees of the Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University and shall cease to be employees of the Government or the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, as the case may be. (3) Every person referred in sub-sections (1) and (2) shall hold office under the University by the same tenure at the same remuneration and upon the same rights and privileges as to pension or gratuity, if any, and other matters as he would have held the same on the appointed day or the date specified in the order under clause (a) of sub-section (2), as the case may be, as if this Act had not been passed. (4) The liability to pay pension and gratuity to the persons referred to in sub-sections (1) and (2) shall be the liability of the Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University. (4-A) “The liability to pay pension and gratuity to the persons specified in the order under sub-section (1-B) shall be the liability of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University”.