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ACT X OF 2020 ACT X OF 2020 BABA GURU NANAK UNIVERSITY NANKANA SAHIB ACT, 2020 An Act to provide for the establishment of Baba Guru Nanak University Nankana Sahib [Gazette of Punjab Extraordinary, 2nd July, 2020] Baba Guru Nanak University Nankana Sahib Act, 2020 was passed by the Punjab Assembly on 26 June 2020; assented to by the Governor of the Punjab on 1st July 2020; and was published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 2nd July 2020, pages 67-83. It is necessary in public interest to make provisions for the establishment of Baba Guru Nanak University Nankana Sahib and for the matters connected therewith and ancillary thereto. Be it enacted by Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as follows: CHAPTER III OFFICERS OF THE UNIVERSITY 10. Chancellor.---(1) Governor of the Punjab shall be the Chancellor of the University. (2) The University may, subject to prior approval of the Chancellor, confer an honorary degree on a person of eminence. (3) The Chancellor or his nominee shall preside at the convocation of the University. (4) The Chancellor, may, after affording an opportunity of being heard, remove any person from the membership of an Authority if such person: (a) has become of unsound mind; or (b) has been subjected to any incapacity which prevents him from functioning as a member of such Authority; or (c) has been convicted by a court of law of an offence involving moral turpitude; or (d) does not attend five consecutive meetings of the Authority, without intimation to the Vice Chancellor; or (e) has accepted any assignment which involves his absence from the country for a continuous period of more than six months, without intimation to the Vice Chancellor. (5) Subject to the Act, the Chancellor may approve the draft statutes submitted by the Syndicate or refer the statutes back to the Syndicate for reconsideration. (6) In the performance of his functions under the Act, the Chancellor shall act and shall be bound in the same manner as the Governor of a Province acts and is bound under Article 105 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.