Short title and commencement.--(1) This Act may be called the Pre-degree Course (Abolition) Act, 1997. — ACT 3 OF 1998

Short title and commencement.--(1) This Act may be called the Pre-degree Course (Abolition) Act, 1997.

1. Short title and commencement.--(1) This Act may be called the Pre-degree Course (Abolition) Act, 1997. (2) Clauses (c) and (d) of sub-section (2) of section 3 shall come into force at once and the remaining provisions of this Act shall be deemed to have come into force on the 3rd day of June, 1997. Definitions.--(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-- (a) "academic year" means a period of 12 months commencing from the first day of June and ending with the thirty first day of May of the following year; (b) "Committee" means Empowered Committee constituted by sub-section (2) of section 3; (c) "University laws" means the Kerala University Act, 1974 (14 of 1974), the Calicut University Act, 1975 (5 of 1975), the Mahatma Gandhi University Act, 1985 (12 of 1985) and the Kannur University Act, 1996 (22 of 1996) and the Statutes, Ordinances, Regulations, the rules and the byelaws made under the said Acts; (d) "State" means the State of Kerala. (2) | Words and expressions used but not defined in this Act and defined in the University Laws shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the said laws.

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