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16 NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY ACT, 2008 Chap. III, Sec.16

(m) to recommend stipends, scholarships, medals and prizes and
to make other awards in accordance with the Regulations and
such other conditions as may be attached to the awards;
(n) to approve or revise lists of prescribed or recommended text
books and to publish the same and syllabus at the prescribed
courses of study;
(o) to approve such forms and the registers as are, from time to
time, required by the Regulations;
(p) to formulate, from time to time, the desired standards of legal
education to be adhered in drawing up the curriculum /syllabi for
being taught in the University ; and
(q) to perform, in relation to academic matters, all such duties and
to do all such acts as may be necessary for the proper carrying
out of the provisions of this Act and the Regulations made there
under.
(2) The Academic Council shall meet as often as may be necessary, but
not less than two times during an academic year.
(3) One-half of the existing members of the Academic Council shall form
the quorum for a meeting of the Academic Council.

(4) In case of difference of opinion among the members, the opinion of
the majority shall prevail.
(5) Each member of the Academic Council, including the Chairman of
the Academic Council, have one vote and if there be an equality of
votes on any question to be determined by the Academic Council,
the Chairman of the Academic Council, or, as the case may be, the
member presiding over the meetings, shall in addition, have a casting
vote.
(6) Every meeting of the Academic Council shall be presided over by the
Vice-Chancellor and in his absence by a member chosen in the
meeting to preside on the occasion.
(7) If urgent action by the Academic Council becomes necessary, the
Chairman of the Academic Council may permit the business to be
transacted by circulation of the papers to the members of the
Academic Council. The action proposed to be taken shall not be
taken unless agreed to, by a majority of the members of the Academic
Council. The action so taken shall forthwith be intimated to all the
members of the Academic Council. In case the authority concerned
fails to take decision, the matter shall be referred to the Chancellor
whose decision shall be final.