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Higher Education Act, 1997 (Act No. 101 of 1997)

Chapter 4 : Governance of Public Higher Education Institutions

29. Committees of council and senate

 

(1) The council and the senate of a public higher education institution may each establish committees to perform any of their functions and may appoint persons, who are not members of the council or the senate, as the case may be, as members of such committees.

 

(2) The council and the senate are not divested of responsibility for the performance of any function delegated or assigned to a committee under this section.

 

(3) The council and the senate of a public higher education institution may jointly nominate committees, to be known as joint committees, to perform functions that are common to the council and the senate.

 

(4) The composition, manner of election, functions, procedure at meetings and dissolution of a committee and a joint committee are determined by the institutional statute or institutional rules.

[Section 29(4) amended by section 10 of Act No. 23 of 2001]