Prohibition on establishing Universities
Subject to section 5A , no higher educational institution with the status of a University shall be established except in accordance with the provisions of this Act or any other written law regulating its establishment.
Non-application of Act to University established under treaty, etc.
(1) The provisions of this Act shall not apply to any higher educational institution with the status of a University which is authorized to be established by an order made by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong under subsection (2) and any private higher educational institution conferred with the status of a University or University College under any written law.
(2) The Yang di-Pertuan Agong may by order published in the Gazette authorize the establishment of any higher educational institution having the status of a University, whatever its name or style, if he is satisfied that it is to be established pursuant to any treaty, agreement or convention between Malaysia and any other country or pursuant to any agreement between Malaysia and an international organization.
Incorporation and establishment of a University
(1) If, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong is satisfied that it is expedient in the national interest that a University should be established, he may by order—
(a) declare that there shall be established a higher educational institution having the status of a University, which shall be a body corporate, for the purpose of providing, promoting and developing higher education in all such branches of learning as shall be specified in the order;
(b) assign a name and style to that University; and
(c) specify the location of the site which shall be the seat of that University.
(2) An Order made under subsection (1) (hereinafter referred to as the “Incorporation Order”) shall, at the next meeting of Parliament, be laid before both Houses of Parliament.
Effect of Incorporation Order and general powers of a higher educational institution which is a University
(1) Upon the coming into force of the Incorporation Order made under section 6, a higher educational institution having the status of a University, with the name and style assigned to it by the Order, shall be deemed to have been established, and by which name the Chancellor, the Vice-Chancellor and the members for the time being of the Board and the Senate shall be deemed to have been constituted a body corporate with perpetual succession and with full power and authority by and in such name—
(a) to sue and be sued in all courts;
(b) to have and use a common seal and to alter the same at its pleasure;
(c) to purchase any immovable or movable property and to take, accept and hold any such property which may become vested in it by virtue of any such purchase or by any grant or donation, lease, subventions, legacies, testamentary disposition or otherwise;
(d) to sell, lease, exchange or otherwise dispose of any such property not inconsistent with any condition or restriction as may be imposed by the Constitution; and
(e) to exercise, discharge and perform all such powers, duties and functions as may be conferred or imposed on the University by this Act or the Constitution.
(2) The powers conferred on a University by subsection (1) shall, unless otherwise expressly provided by this Act or the Constitution, be exercised by the Board.
Constitution of a University
(1) The Constitution of a University shall contain provisions for all the matters set out in the First Schedule to this Act.
(2) If at any time the Constitution does not contain provisions set out in the First Schedule to this Act, the Board shall take such steps as may be necessary for giving effect to the provisions aforesaid or for removing the inconsistent provisions in the Constitution.
(3) Without prejudice to subsection (2), the Yang di-Pertuan Agong may, at any time, amend the Constitution so as to bring it into accord with the provisions of the First Schedule to this Act.
(4) The provisions of the Constitution shall take effect from such date as may be appointed by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong and shall have the force of law within Malaysia.
(5) Anything done or appointment made for and on behalf of the University prior to the date of the coming into force of the Constitution shall, on and after that date, be deemed to be made for, by or on behalf of the University.
University to keep office as an address for service in Malaysia
(1) Every University shall keep and maintain an office situated within Malaysia, which shall be its address for service for all writs, plaints, notices, pleadings, orders, summonses, warrants or other proceedings and written communications of all kinds.
(2) All writs, plaints, notices, pleadings, orders, summonses, warrants or other proceedings or other written communications shall, if left at the office kept and maintained under subsection
(1), be deemed duly served upon or delivered to a University or such officer or authority to whom they may have been addressed, in all proceedings before any Court in Malaysia.
Copies of Statutes, etc., to be kept at office of University
Every University shall keep at the office mentioned in section 9 a copy of each current Statute, Rule, Regulation or other documents required to be published under this Act or the Constitution, and shall keep the same available at all reasonable hours for inspection by the public and, where any books or copies of documents are, under this Act or the Constitution, required to be available for purchase by the public, such books or copies shall be kept available for purchase at such office or at some other place within Malaysia as the University may think fit.
Grants-in-aid and accounts
(1) Parliament may from time to time provide grants-in-aid to a University.
(2) All moneys paid to a University under subsection (1) shall be applied or expended by the University for all or any of the purposes of the University in accordance with the estimates approved under the provisions of the Constitution:
Provided that any such moneys appropriated to and not applied for the purposes of the annually recurrent expenditure of the University may, with the approval of the Minister, be applied to capital expenditure.
(3) A copy of the accounts of the University for each financial year shall be prepared and submitted for audit before 30th July immediately following the financial year; and the accounts together with the report of the auditor shall be submitted to the Minister.
(4) The Minister shall cause a copy of the audited accounts of the University to be laid before both Houses of Parliament.
Establishment of Campus of a University
(1) The Yang di-Pertuan Agong may, by order published in the Gazette (hereinafter referred to as “a Campus Order”)—
(a) establish a Campus of the University;
(b) assign a suitable name or designation to the Campus;
(c) specify the site or location of the Campus, being the site or location which shall be in addition to the Campus at the seat of the University;
(d) assign a Faculty to the Campus;
(e) specify the department of study comprised in such Faculty; and
(f) prescribe such other matters as may be necessary or expedient for giving effect to the Campus Order.
(2) The Yang di-Pertuan Agong may at any time, amend, vary or revoke a Campus Order by a subsequent order published in the Gazette.
Acquisition of land for purposes of the University
(1) When any immovable property, not being State land or reserved land or land vested in State or in the Federation or occupied or used by the Federation or a public authority for Federal purposes, is needed for the purposes of a University and cannot be acquired by agreement, such property may be acquired in accordance with the provisions of any written law relating to the acquisition of land for a public purpose for the time being in force in the State in which such property is situated, and any declaration required under any such written law that such land is so needed may be made notwithstanding that compensation is to be paid out of the funds of the University, and such declaration shall have effect as if it were a declaration that such land is needed for a public purpose made in accordance with such written law.
(2) Expenses and compensation in respect of any immovable property acquired under subsection (1) shall be paid by the University.
(3) All immovable property acquired under this section shall vest in the University, and an entry to that effect in the appropriate register shall be made by the proper registering authority.
Exemption from estate duty
No estate duty shall be payable in respect of the amount of any bequest to a University, and the value of the property passing on the death of a deceased shall be deemed not to include the amount of such bequest for the purpose of fixing the rate of estate duty.
Prohibition on a student or a students’ organization, body or group associating with societies, etc., except as provided under the Constitution or approved by the Vice-Chancellor
(1) No person, while he is a student of the University, shall be a member of, or shall in any manner associate with, any society, political party, trade union or any other organization, body or group of persons whatsoever, whether or not it is established under any law, whether it is in the University or outside the University, and whether it is in Malaysia or outside Malaysia, except as may be provided by or under the Constitution, or except as may be approved in advance in writing by the Vice- Chancellor.
(2) No organization, body or group of students of the University, whether established by, under or in accordance with the Constitution, or otherwise, shall have any affiliation, association or other dealing whatsoever with any society, political party, trade union or any other organization, body or group of persons whatsoever, whether or not it is established under any law, whether it is in the University or outside the University, and whether it is in Malaysia or outside Malaysia, except as may be provided by or under the Constitution, or except as may be approved in advance in writing by the Vice- Chancellor.
(3) No person, while he is a student of the University, shall express or do anything which may be construed as expressing support, sympathy or opposition to any political party or trade union or as expressing support or sympathy with any unlawful organization, body or group of persons.
(4) No organization, body or group of students of the University which is established by, under or in accordance with the Constitution, or any other organization, body or group of students of the University, shall express or do anything which may be construed as expressing support, sympathy or opposition to any political party or trade union or as expressing support or sympathy with any unlawful organization, body or group of persons.
(5) Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with subsection (1), (2), (3) or (4) shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both.
Prohibition on collection of money by a student or by an organization, body or group of students
(1) No student of the University, or any organization, body or group of students of the University, shall, in or outside the Campus, or in or outside Malaysia, collect or attempt to collect, or promote or attempt to promote any collection of, or make any appeal orally or in writing or otherwise or attempt to make any such appeal for, any money or other property from any person, not being money or property due or about to fall due under or by virtue of any written law, contract or other legal obligation.
(2) Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both.
(3) The Minister may, in any particular case, in his absolute discretion, grant exemption to any person from the application of subsection (1), subject to such terms and conditions and for such period as he may, in his absolute discretion, deem fit.
(4) Without prejudice to the provisions of any other written law relating to the delegation of powers, the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, delegate the exercise of his powers under subsection (3) to the Vice-Chancellor in respect of collection of money within the Campus from persons within the
Campus, subject to such conditions and restrictions as may be prescribed in such notification.
(5) The provisions of this section shall be in addition to and not in derogation from the provisions of any written law relating to house to house and street collections, public collections, or collection of money or sale of badges.
Criminal liability of office-bearers, etc., of a students’ organization, body or group
(1) Where any offence has been committed under any written law, whether or not any person has been convicted in respect thereof, and such offence has been committed or purports to have been committed in the name or on behalf of, any organization, body or group of students of the University which is established by, under or in accordance with the Constitution, or any other organization, body or group of students of the University, every office-bearer of such organization, body or group and every person managing or assisting in the management of such organization, body or group at the time of the commission of such offence shall be deemed to be guilty of such offence and shall be liable to the punishment prescribed by law therefor, unless he establishes to the satisfaction of the court that the offence was committed without his knowledge and that he had exercised all due diligence to prevent the commission of the offence.
(2) Any office-bearer of, or any person managing or assisting in the management of, any organization, body or group as referred to in subsection (1) shall be liable to be prosecuted under this section, notwithstanding that he may not have taken part in the commission of the offence.
(3) In any prosecution under this section of an office-bearer of, or any person managing or assisting in the management of, any organization, body or group as referred to in subsection (1), any document found in the possession of any office-bearer of, or person managing or assisting in the management of, such organization, body or group, or in the possession of a member of such organization, body or group shall be prima facie evidence of the contents thereof for the purpose of proving that anything has been done or purports to have been done by or on behalf of such organization, body or group.
Presumptions
In any prosecution under this Act—
(a) it shall not be necessary for the prosecution to prove that an organization, body or group of persons possesses a name or that it has been constituted or is usually known under a particular name;
(b) where any books, accounts, writings, lists of members, seals, banners or insignia of, or relating to, or purporting to relate to, any organization, body or group of persons are found in the possession, custody or under the control of any person, it shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, that such person is a member of such organization, body or group, and such organization, body or group shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, to be in existence at the time such books, accounts, writings, lists of members, seals, banners or insignia are so found; and
(c) where any books, accounts, writings, lists of members, seals, banners or insignia of, or relating to, any organization, body or group of persons are found in the possession, custody or under the control of any person, it shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, that such person assists in the management of such organization, body or group.
Suspension and expulsion of a student charged with a criminal offence or against whom a criminal offence is proved
(1) Where a student of the University is charged with a criminal offence he shall immediately thereupon be suspended from being a student of the University and shall not, during the pendency of the criminal proceedings, remain in or enter the Campus of that or any other University.
(2) Where a court finds that a charge for a criminal offence is proved against a student of the University, the student shall, immediately thereupon, cease to be a student of the University, and shall not remain in or enter the Campus of that or any other University.
(3) A student of the University who is detained, or is subjected to any order imposing restrictions on him, under any written law relating to preventive detention or internal security, shall, immediately thereupon, cease to be a student of the University and shall not remain in or enter the Campus of that or any other University.
(4) A student of the University who is suspended from being a student of the University under subsection (1) shall not, while he is so suspended, be admitted as a student of any other University in Malaysia without the written approval of the Minister, and if the Minister grants such approval, the Minister may impose such terms and conditions as he may, in his absolute discretion, deem fit to impose.
(5) A student of the University who ceases to be a student of the University under subsection (2) or (3) shall not be admitted as a student of that or any other University in Malaysia without the written approval of the Minister, and if the Minister grants such approval, the Minister may impose such terms and conditions as he may, in his absolute discretion, deem fit to impose.
(6) Any person who remains in or enters the Campus of any University in contravention of subsection (1), (2) or (3) or who obtains admission to any University in contravention of subsection (4) or (5) shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both.
(7) Subsections (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) shall apply to a person notwithstanding that there may be pending in any court or before any other authority any application, petition, appeal, or other proceeding whatsoever by him or by any other person in respect of the criminal proceedings, the detention, or the order imposing restrictions, as the case may be:
Provided that upon the determination of such application, petition, appeal or other proceeding the Minister may, in his absolute discretion, have regard to such determination and grant exemption to the student from the application of subsection (1),
(2), (3), (4) or (5), as the case may be, upon such terms and conditions as he may, in his absolute discretion, deem fit to impose.
(8) The Minister may, at any time, in any particular case, in his absolute discretion, grant exemption to any person from the application of subsection (1), (2), (3), (4) or (5), as the case may be, either unconditionally, or upon such terms and conditions, or for such period, as he may, in his absolute discretion, deem fit.
(9) (Deleted by Act A946).
Power of Vice-Chancellor to suspend or dissolve any organization, body or group of students
If any organization, body or group of students of the University conducts itself in a manner which the Vice-Chancellor considers detrimental or prejudicial to the interests or well-being of the University, or to the interests or well-being of any of the students or staff of the University, or to public order, safety or security, or if any such organization, body or group violates any provision of any written law, the Vice-Chancellor may suspend or dissolve such organization, body or group.
Discipline of staff, officers and employees of University
(1) The Board shall have disciplinary authority over every staff, officer and employee of the University and shall exercise disciplinary control in respect of all such persons in accordance with this Act and any rules made under section 16C.
(2) The Board may, by notification in the Gazette, establish different disciplinary committees for different categories of staff, officer and employee.
(3) A disciplinary committee shall exercise its powers in all matters relating to the discipline of every staff, officer and employee placed under its jurisdiction.
(4) A staff, officer or employee who is a member of a disciplinary committee shall not be lower in rank than any staff, officer or employee over whom the disciplinary committee has disciplinary authority.
(5) In any case where a member of a disciplinary committee is himself a complainant in any disciplinary proceedings before the disciplinary committee, he shall not be present in such
proceedings and the Board shall appoint any other person to participate in such proceedings.
(6) Subsection (4) shall apply to any other person appointed to a disciplinary committee under subsection (5).
(7) In the exercise of its disciplinary functions and powers, a disciplinary committee shall have the power to take disciplinary action and impose any disciplinary punishment or any combination of two or more of the disciplinary punishments provided under the rules made under section 16C .
(8) A disciplinary committee shall have no jurisdiction in respect of the Chancellor, Pro-Chancellors and Vice-Chancellor.
(9) Any staff, officer or employee who is dissatisfied with the decision of a disciplinary committee may, within thirty days from the date of the service of the decision on him, appeal in writing against such decision to the Board.
(10) When the Board considers any appeal under subsection
(9), members of the disciplinary committee against whose decision the appeal is made shall not be present or in any way participate in any proceedings relating to that appeal.
(11) The Board shall have the power to confirm, reverse or vary the decision of the disciplinary committee or give such directions on the appeal as it deems fit and proper.
(12) The decision of the Board upon an appeal shall be final.
Disciplinary authority in respect of students of the University
(1) The disciplinary authority of the University in respect of every student of the University shall be the Vice-Chancellor.
(2) The Vice-Chancellor who is the disciplinary authority under subsection (1), shall have the power to take such disciplinary action and impose such disciplinary punishment as may be provided for under any disciplinary rules that may be made by the Board under section 16C .
(3) The Vice-Chancellor who is the disciplinary authority under subsection (1), may delegate any of his disciplinary functions, powers or duties to any of the Deputy Vice-
Chancellors, any member of the staff, any officer or any employee of the University, or to any board of members of the staff, officers or employees of the University, in respect of any particular student, or any class or category of the students of the University, and the Deputy Vice-Chancellors, member of the staff, officer or employee or the board delegated with such functions, powers or duties shall carry out, exercise or discharge them under the direction and control of such Vice-Chancellor who shall have the power to review, rescind or vary any decision or finding of such Deputy Vice-Chancellor, member of the staff, officer or employee or such board:
Provided that no delegation shall be made under this subsection to the Chancellor or the Pro-Chancellors.
(4) Any student dissatisfied with the decision of the Vice- Chancellor who is the disciplinary authority under subsection (1) or of any person or board delegated with functions, powers or duties under subsection (3) may, within thirty days from the date of the service of the decision on him, appeal against such decision to the Minister who may, if he deems fit, summarily reject the appeal.
(5) Where the Minister does not summarily reject an appeal under subsection (4), he shall appoint a committee of two or more persons, from within or without the University, to consider the appeal and make its recommendations to him, and, upon receiving such recommendations, the Minister may give such decision on the appeal as he deems fit and proper.
Disciplinary rules
(1) The Board shall have the power to make such disciplinary rules as it deems necessary or expedient to provide for the discipline of the members of the staff, officers and employees of the University and of the students of the University; the disciplinary rules made under this subsection shall be published in the Gazette.
(2) The disciplinary rules made by the Board under this section may include provisions for the interdiction with reduction in salary or in other remuneration, or provisions for the suspension without salary or other remuneration, of a member of the staff or an officer or employee of the University, and for the
suspension of a student of the University, during the pendency of disciplinary proceedings.
(3) The disciplinary rules made under this section shall create such disciplinary offences and provide for such disciplinary punishments as the Board may deem appropriate, and the punishments so provided may extend to dismissal or reduction in rank in the case of members of the staff, officers or employees of the University, and expulsion from the University in the case of students of the University.
(4) The disciplinary rules made under this section shall, in prescribing the procedure for disciplinary proceedings, provide for an opportunity for representations to be made by the person against whom disciplinary proceedings are taken before a decision is arrived at by the disciplinary authority on the disciplinary charge laid against such person.
(5) The particularity of the matters referred to in subsections
(2), (3) and (4) shall be without prejudice to the generality of the powers of the Board under subsection (1).
Surcharge
(1) A person who is or was a staff, officer or employee of the University may be surcharged if it appears to the Board that the person—
(a) has failed to collect money owing to the University for the collection of which he is or was responsible;
(b) is or was responsible for any improper payment of money from the University or for any payment of money which is not duly approved;
(c) is or was responsible, directly or indirectly, for any deficiency in, or for the destruction of, any money, stamp, security, store or other property of the University;
(d) being or having been an accounting officer, fails or had failed to keep proper accounts or records; or
(e) has failed to make any payment, or is or was responsible for any delay in the payment from the University, of moneys to any person to whom such payment is due under any law, contract, agreement or arrangement entered into between that person and the University.
(2) The Board shall, before the person is surcharged, serve on him a written notice calling on him to show cause why he should not be surcharged.
(3) If a satisfactory explanation is not received within thirty days from the date of the service of the notice under subsection
(2), the Board may—
(a) in the case of paragraphs (1)(a), (b) and (c), surcharge against the person a sum not exceeding the amount not collected, or of the improper payment made, or of the deficiency in the value of, or destruction caused of, the money, stamp, security, store or other property; and
(b) in the case of paragraphs (1)(d) and (e), surcharge against the person, such sum as the Board may think fit.
(4) The Board shall notify the person surcharged in respect of any surcharge made under subsection (3).
(5) Notwithstanding subsections (3) and (4), the Board may at any time withdraw any surcharge in respect of which a satisfactory explanation has been received or if it otherwise appears that no surcharge should have been made, and the Board shall forthwith notify the person surcharged of the withdrawal.
(6) Where the amount of any surcharge made under subsection
(3) is not withdrawn under subsection (5), it shall be deemed to be a debt due to the University from the person surcharged and may be sued for and recovered in any court at the suit of the University and may also if the Board so directs be recovered by deduction—
(a) from the salary of the person surcharged; or
(b) from the pension of the person surcharged,
by equal monthly instalments not exceeding one-fourth of the total monthly salary or pension, as the case may be, of that person.
(7) In any action for surcharge against the Vice-Chancellor, the composition of the Board for the purposes of subsections (1) to (6) shall not include the Vice-Chancellor.
(8) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(d), “accounting officer” includes every staff, officer or employee of the University charged with the duty of collecting, receiving, or accounting for, or who in fact collects, receives or accounts for, any money of the University, or who is charged with the duty of disbursing, or who does in fact disburse, any such money, and every staff, officer or employee who is charged with the receipt, custody or disposal of, or the accounting for, any money, stamp, security, store and property of the University or who in fact receives, holds or disposes of such money, stamp, security, store and property.
Constitution to provide protection of benefits under provident fund scheme
The Constitution may establish a provident fund scheme for its employees and the following provisions shall apply to any such provident scheme—
(a) no assurance on the life of any contributor under any provident scheme and no moneys or other benefits received under such assurance or in any other manner under any such scheme shall be capable of being taken in execution or otherwise garnished, attached, sequestered or levied upon for or in respect of any debt or claim whatsoever against the contributor or his estate unless the University in its discretion shall have assigned such assurance, moneys or other benefits to the contributor for his absolute use and benefit or, in the case of his death, to his legal personal representative;
(b) subject to any discretionary trusts or powers as to the application thereof vested by any Act or rules relating thereto in the University or other person administering the provident scheme, all moneys and benefits arising from any such provident scheme shall be deemed to be impressed with a trust in favour of the objects entitled thereto under the will or intestacy of any deceased contributor;
(c) no donation or contribution to a fund established under a provident scheme or interest thereon shall be assignable or liable to be attached, sequestered or levied upon for or in respect of any debt or claim whatsoever other than a debt due to the University;
(d) no such donation or contribution or interest shall be subject to the debts of the contributor, nor shall such donation, contribution or interest be subject to the debts of the contributor, nor shall such donation, contribution or interest pass to the Director General of Insolvency on the bankruptcy of such contributor, but, if such contributor is adjudicated a bankrupt or is declared insolvent by judgement of the court, such donation or contribution or interest shall, subject to the provisions of this Act and of the Constitution and of any Act or rules relating thereto, be deemed to be impressed with a trust in favour of the persons entitled thereto on the death of the contributor;
(e) the bankruptcy of a contributor shall not effect the making of deductions from the salary of the contributor in accordance with any Act or rules relating thereto, but such deductions shall continue to be made notwithstanding the provisions of any written law, and the portion of salary so deducted shall be deemed not to form part of his after-acquired property;
(f) subject to the provisions of any Act or rules relating thereto, all moneys payable or paid out of any fund established under a provident scheme on the death of a contributor shall be deemed to be impressed with a trust in favour of the persons entitled thereto under the will or intestacy of such deceased contributor, or under a nomination in such form as may be prescribed under the scheme, but shall not be deemed to form part of his estate or be subject to the payment of his debts.
Transitional provisions
The Yang di-Pertuan Agong may in respect of the Constitution provide such transitional provisions as he may deem necessary or expedient for the purpose of achieving the objects of the University.
P ART IV UNIVERSITY COLLEGES
Prohibition on establishing University Colleges
No higher educational institution with the status of a University College shall be established except in accordance with the provisions of this Act or any other written law regulating its establishment.
Incorporation and establishment of a University College
If, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong is satisfied that it is expedient in the national interest that a University College should be established, he may by order—
(a) declare that there shall be established a higher educational institution having the status of a University College, which shall be a body corporate for the purpose of providing, in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the Constitution of the University College, higher education in specified branches of learning;
(b) assign a name to that University College; and
(c) specify the location of the site which shall be the seat of that University College.
Constitution of a University College
(1) The Yang di-Pertuan Agong may by regulations prescribe the Constitution of a University College.
(2) The Yang di-Pertuan Agong may at any time amend the Constitution of a University College.
(3) The provisions of the Constitution of a University College shall take effect from such date as may be appointed by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong and shall have the force of law within Malaysia.
(4) Anything done or appointment made for and on behalf of the University College prior to the date of the coming into force
of the Constitution shall, on and after that date, be deemed to be made for, by or on behalf of the University College.
Application of provisions of Part III to this Part
Subsections 6(2), sections 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 15A, 15 B, 15C , 15D , 16, 16A , 16B , 16 C, 16 D and 17 applicable to a University established under this Act shall mutatis mutandis apply to a University College established or deemed to be established under this Act subject to the following modifications, that is to say—
(a) reference to “University” shall be read as reference to “University College”;
(aa) reference to “Board” shall be read as reference to the executive body of the University College;
(b) reference to “Chancellor”, “Vice-Chancellor” and “Deputy Vice-Chancellor” shall be read as reference to the appropriate authorities of the University College;
(c) reference to “Pro-Chancellor” shall be deleted; and
(d) such other modifications as may be necessary or expedient for giving effect to this section.
Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).